New automatic power-off info 2002-08-26 - By spu
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I just had an interesting experience yesterday. I had made a boot
disk (dos formatted) for kernel version 2.4.18-10 and when I shut down
my machine, it didn 't prompt me to power-off like usual, it just did it
on it 's own, like a lot of us would like it to :) I tried a boot disk
with the same kernel version, but this time formatted as ext2, and when
I shut down that time, it power-offed automatically again :) When I
preceded to boot from the same version of the kernel, but this time from
my hard drive (using GRUB), when I went to shut down, it gave me the
power-off prompt.
Does anybody have any idea why my machine power-offs automatically
when I shut down having booted from a boot disk, and not when I shut
down after having booted from the hard drive? If there is a reason, is
it possible to use this information to fix this problem, as I know that
this isn 't the first time I 've seen this question on this list.
By the way, I am running Red Hat 7.3, with all the updates installed
(except for PHP, which is downloading now, and one that crashes
everytime I try to rebuild the SRPM, fetchmail), including the kernel.
Thanks for your help on this matter :)
Steven P. Ulrick
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