Re: RH6 kernel shutdown problem AMD K6-2

Fabio Ferrari (fabio.ferrari@digitro.com.br)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:14:05 -0300

Tuan Hoang wrote:
> I've got two identical machines with an AMD K6-2 350 Mhz on a Tyan VIA
> Apollo motherboard. Whenever I go to shutdown RH 6.0 w/ kernel 2.2.5-15
> or 2.2.5-22, the kernel dumps right before it is supposed to display
> the "Power Down" text.
>
> Anyone else get this?

Yes, this is a BIOS bug.
Change the last line of /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt from:
eval $command -i -d -p
to:
eval $command -i -d

This will avoid "halt" from trying to do a "powerdown".

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