System reboots when told to shutdown

rocktorrentz · 2007-10-18 13:45:36

I've just installed arch on an old Pentium 3 PC I acquired and everything works great. However when I run "shutdown -h now" the PC just reboots. I have tried changing the kernel line in my menu.lst; I've tried "acpi=on apm=off", "acpi=off apm=on" and "acpi=force lapic". The last one fixed a problem I had with another old system I had a while ago.

The PC dual boots with Windows 98se and shuts down fine from Windows. I have also made sure that any "Wake On" features are disabled in the BIOS. There is no setting for state after power failure (which I thought might help).

Anyone got any ideas?
rocktorrentz

kishd · 2007-10-18 14:40:48

try acpi=force

rocktorrentz · 2007-10-18 16:08:54

Thanks but that didn't work . Any other suggestions? I've tried some more BIOS settings but none helped.

stingray · 2007-10-18 16:12:56

for my old sager laptop I had to do this...

--- to make shutdown work right
menu.lst, add "apm=power-off" to the kernel line...

rocktorrentz · 2007-10-18 17:14:10

That didn't work either . Here is my menu.lst in case I edited it wrong:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro apm=power-off
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

kishd · 2007-10-19 15:03:30

Is this an old pc with apm? Enable apm in the bios and try acpi=force. This worked for me on an old ibm thinkpad t20

rocktorrentz · 2007-10-19 17:41:21

You already suggested that APM in the BIOS is enabled and it still doesn't work.

kishd · 2007-10-19 19:20:20

Do you have acpid installed and loaded from rc.conf?

rocktorrentz · 2007-10-19 20:46:01

kishd wrote:

Do you have acpid installed and loaded from rc.conf?

I didn't but I just set it up and that didn't help either . It seems really strange that none of this stuff has fixed the problem when windows 98se works properly straight out the box. Is it something to do with the kernel not having full apm support?

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#1 2007-10-18 13:45:36

System reboots when told to shutdown

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