Hi friends,

i am having problem with Redhat linux 9.0. intel 845GERG2 motherboard with 2.4Ghz processor DDR 1 512 MB Ram, 80GB HDD, Dlink Network card.
it works fine but During shudown the system does all the process and finally it displays halt system powerdown hda
i need to press the on/off switch to power off the PC
what could i do to shutdown the PC automatically ?

Thanks

I believe that option is dependant on the BIOS. Check the BIOS setting,
if it supports such an operation.

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A.Rajesh Khanna

Thankyou for your Reply
i will try the BIOS option and getback to you

It might be trying to sync the buffers.
Try this.
# sync && poweroff

firstly, why are you using such an old distro ?

secondly, the kernel on there prolly does not know/ understand / suppor thr acpi controls on the motherboard.

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Hi raja

i have tried the command sync and turnoff in bash shell
and sytem shutdown process are going on and finally it says powerdown
and remain in on state, keyboard is enabled in that time.
By pressing ctrl+Alt+del the system gets restrated

can you tell me any other options to shutdown?

Thank you

Hi satheesh,

Why don't you try disabling acpi and booting? Then you can know
if the problem is due to ACPI/not. Use option=noacpi as a kernel param in
your grub when you boot and try.

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A.Rajesh Khanna

try these commands

shutdown -h now --> for halt
shutdown -r now --> for reboot

Thank You

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