[nflug] not booting w/out acpi=off boot option

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sat Jan 13 15:30:19 EST 2007


vlok stone wrote:
> Hi all, I'm having an issue w/ a Compaq Presario
> SR1103WM. I need to pass the acpi=off for it to boot.
> My
> problem is that it won't shut down. You have to
> manually 
> power down after it says "system halted". The bios has
> shadow going but no way to turn it off. Any ideas?
>
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When you completely shut off acpi, you remove the ability for it to
power off as well. Try booting with acpi=ht, this turns off all acpi
functions except hyper threading, it will probably power off for you then.
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