Halt not working

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Andreas Mueller wrote:

> Gerrit wrote:
> > Alberto Molteni wrote:
> > >    When I try to halt the machine I see all the apps
> > > shutting down OK (except the mouse services, but I've
> > > read that's quite normal) and then... nothing happens!
> > > It gets as far as to:
> > >
> > > Flushing ide devices: hda hdb
> > > Power down.
> > >
> > > or something like that. And then the computer hangs,
> > > and I can just press the restart button. Rebooting
> > > works (except a few occasional hangs on "Unmounting
> > > file systems", but that doesn't bother me much).
> > > Is there something wrong with the OS? Or is it
> > > something to do with the BIOS or the ATX supply?
> >
> > You need to configure APM, Advanced Power Management, but some
> > hardware is unable to do that.
>
> If this doesn't work, try booting the kernel with "acpi=on" for ACPI
> support.
>

Same problem here.

Behaviour:
Flushing ide devices: hda hdb
Power down
(Harddisks go down but computer is still running).

Motherboard is an Epox 8KRA2+ with latest FC1.

Also tried acpi=on. Same thing.

Any ideas?

Ciao,
Gerhard