ACPI's "power off" enabled kernel?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

>The PC is IBM's BladeCenter, with HyperThreading and ACPI support,
>but no APM support ( the kernel says "apm: BIOS not found." ).
>I tried both UP and SMP kernel configurations.

This is on different hardware, but I found when upgrading to recent
RedHats that the kernel argument "acpi=off" made /sbin/poweroff work.

Google has plenty of suggestions if you ask for "linux acpi poweroff".


Cheers,
Phil