Re: [LUG] Power off shutdown

[Tony Atkin <tone_pl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I find that the ability of a pc to let the operating system turn it off varies 
with the hardware.  Works fine on my work machine, but linux (whatever 
flavour) has never been able to achieve it on my home machine, even though 
win98 seems to know how to do it.  I don't think it's a problem, shutting 
down from kdm or with "shutdown -h now" or whatever, provided linux goes 
through its own shutdown procedures and ends up with something like "ok to 
power down" or "reached runlevel 0" you can just pull the plug.

Tony



On Monday 30 September 2002 1:57 pm, admin wrote:
> Debian
>
> In a terminal I type:
>
> halt
>
> to close down. After a bit the screen tells me I cn power down.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't do that I have to press reset on my box and let it
> boot into Windows and shut down and power off that way!
>
> I have tried:
>
> halt -p
>
> shutdown -p
>
> but nothing seems to work.
>
> Any ideas anyone?

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