[WBEL-users] Shutdown / halt - manually shutting down.

[Scott Silva]

Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> Alon,
> 
> 	Hmmm, I have used that same kernel and it will shut down no
> problem on my desktop machine.  What I have been informed of, and
> seems to be uniformially accurate, is that SMP kernels will *NOT*
> power down.  I've never seen a SMP kernel in the 2.4 series that
> did.  (I'm hedging, I can't remember if the 2.2 on RH6.2 would or
> not off hand).  Possibly I don't have the APCI or whatever enabled
> that is suggested later in this thread, but by default I've never
> seen an SMP kernel do it.  (For whatever it's worth, you aren't
> alone in the world).
> 
>     I've got a dozen SMP makes and models at work.  Not a one of
> them will ever shutdown.  They'll reboot no problem.  Shutdown, not
> a chance.  I have no idea why that is, but my guess is that if you
> booted the same machine w/ a uni-processor kernel, it'd shutdown
> fine.  I've never investigated the matter, I've just accepted it as
> a limitation.  Then pressed the power button.
> 
>     Thanks,
>         Kirby
> 
> PS:  Mutt seems to believe you are replying to a thread about IDE
> controllers.  If you are just replying to a handy message to avoid
> typing "whitebox-users at beau.org", it's very jarring to people who
> follow e-mail threads with clients that support it.
> 

That was one of the most gentle and caring hijacking "slaps" I've ever seen!


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