Re: 2.4.3 - Problems with poweroff

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:04:19 +0100 (BST)

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> I'm booting Win98SE and run loadlin 1.6a to booting the linux kenel 2.4.3.
> Everything goes ok, but my machine will not turn off if I use the command
> poweroff.

Win98SE will have deleted the ACPI tables that can be removed

> I don't understand, whats the difference to load the kernel from Win98SE or
> from MS-Dos 6.22.

In this case MSDOS wont have trashed critical tables. In general 'A lot less
than people think' ;)
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