jkpalmer Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Using Mandrake 10.1 on an older model Dell XPS 700. Installed great, starting to get to know Linux but found a troubling issue.... When trying to shutdown, the machine will stay on, so I hold the power button in for approx. 5 seconds and machine turns off. A few MINUTES later, the machine turns itself back on. The machine has Windows XP Pro on another partition and if I switch over to Windows and shutdown, the machine will turn off and stay off. Help. p.s. I'm VERY NEW to Linux so please be "gentle". Regards, -jP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Enter BIOS and disable "PnP OS", as well as USB legacy support, if they are turned on. The shutdown issue is rather common and ACPI related- similar issues have been discussed many times here. You could start with passing via LILO "noapic" or "nolapic" to your running kernel (probably both). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkpalmer Posted February 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 tried your suggestion, but when i execute /sbin/lilo i receive an error. Is there a place where a NEWBIE can see syntax rules for editting lilo.conf? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 If you could post your /etc/lilo.conf file it might help track down the problem. I think the entry would look like this, at the end of the image line for Mandriva: append="noapic nolapic" There might be other things in there too. I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 tried your suggestion, but when i execute /sbin/lilo i receive an error. Sorry if im stating the obvious here but did you run the lilo command as root? ie: su then your password for root, then lilo -v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkpalmer Posted February 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 (edited) I've tried many alternatives. Re-installed Mandrake 10.1 several times. I even found a place when installing (do not remember exactly where) where I could set noapic and nolapic on or off. That setting didn't allow Linux to boot at all, so I reinstalled and made sure that the opens were not initially set "on" when I installed. Where should I supply noapic and nolapic values? Current contents of my lilo.conf: # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="linux" boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde3 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde3" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde3" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label="windows" table=/dev/hde I don't have the contents of the file that was erroring, because I had to reinstall O/S. I did run - lilo -v -v as su Edited February 5, 2006 by jkpalmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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