[LinuxBIOS] EPIA power off / reset

[Fredrik Ohrstrom]

I have to add acpi=force to the kernel boot line in grub menu.lst
to enable acpi in my Ubuntu Feisty fawn. Without it my EPIA SP does not
shut down.

I have found that other distributions sometimes add acpi automatically.

2007/5/21, Ben Hewson <ben at hewson-venieri.com>:
> ron minnich wrote:
> > On 5/21/07, Ben Hewson <ben at hewson-venieri.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all, I have a question, my EPIA board will not shutdown from Linux,
> >> it works fine with the original BIOS though.
> >
> > what does shutdown mean? Power off? Is it trying to use ACPI?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > ron
> >
> Ok the kernel is compiled with
>
>     Legacy Power management api
>     ACPI support is enabled
>     and also APM bios support is enabled, which I guess is not going to work
>
> I will compile that option out and see if that helps.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
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