Re: Poweroff problems (was: Re: This message is for Arend)

[Arend <enigma-list meetsma org>]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nikhil Jain wrote:

> Thanks for the response. I have Windows 98 se installed. Either way
> doesn't way,when I press Ctrl-Alt-Del or when I power off the PC
> completely,Windows doesn't shut down properly.I keep getting the
> message "It is now safe...." but the PC doesn't poweroff
> automatically. When I uninstall Red Hat Linux 7.2,the problem
> disappears.So,that makes it sure that Linux is creating the problem
> somewhere. Reply soon

Then there must be something wrong with your grub.conf or lilo.conf. 
There is no other way for linux to interfere with your cold-booted 
Windows machine. 

Two things you can try:

1. Make a boot disk for linux, and then take your bootloader off. (fdisk 
with the MBR switch). Then try cold-booting to Windows. 

2. Send us your grub.conf or lilo.conf for inspection. 

  To do this, the easiest way is to mail them directly from linux, but
  you could also boot to linux, mount your fat32 drive, and copy the
  file there. 

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Arend