Halt or Poweroff not powering off box.

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

I think my fc2 box is saying "calling acpi_power_up" rigth before
shutdown.

ons, 13.10.2004 kl. 02.09 skrev Tom Mitchell:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:38:01PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:33:02PM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 02:42:18PM -0700, Gabriel Moreno wrote:
> > > > The halt and poweroff only halt my system.  But don't turn it off. 
> > > > I've tried booting with acpi=on apm=off and reversed it and no luck.
> > > 
> > > Another change to look for is how poweroff breaks wakeup on interrupt
> > > between FC2 and FC3test3.
> > > 
> > > I miss being able to "poweroff" my test box then send 
> > > a wakeup packet to have it boot.
> > > 
> > > I suspect the change is in the same general set of code
> > > as the original question.
> > 
> > Very unlikely indeed. What network chip - network code changes are by far
> > more likely to be involved here I think
> 
> Well with FC2 the box would powerdown and trivial power
> would be available to the network card and with a correctly
> formed packet the card would wakeup the box (equivalent
> to pushing a front panel button).
> 
> I guess it partly depends on the state that the system leaves the network chips 
> and PS when the box is shut down.  In this case:
> 
>  eth0 = Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
> 
> I suspect some of the key difference is with acpi_power_off
> While acpi is enabled for the BIOS on both the FC2 and FC3Test3 box
> only FC3test3(and2) is noisy about using it on powerdown.
> 
> I think the rock I need to look under is acpi_power_off.
> 
> 
> 
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