On Saturday 13 December 2003 16:32, Yasir Malik wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to shutdown my system using shutdown -p now, but whenever I do so,
> the system halts and asks me to press any key to reboot.  How can I
> configure my system to support software powerdown?  I usually
> manually shutdown my machine after logging off, but this causes a scan
> disk at the next time I boot.  This is very annoying because I have to
> wait more than a minute for it to finish.  Can anyone help me out?

You need to have APM support in kernel; see apm(4).  ACPI won't do it.

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