GRUB and shutdown problems

[phil3k]

despite the fact, that gentoo linux runs perfectly, I've got two problems.

When I try to give a 'shutdown now', instead of shutting down the machine, Linux just prints "Power Down" on the console, and waits forever, I don't know whats the source of this problem.

And secondly, I've got boot problems with GRUB. But first my boot scenario. NT Loader acts as the primary loader (installed in /dev/hde1) loading GRUB (installed in /dev/hde11) (Listing 1). When want to boot Linux from the NT Boot Menu, instead of booting Linux, GRUB just goes to his built-in console, and nothing more happens.

Then when I manually enter the commands, (root + kernel + boot), everything works just fine.

I think that the problem is, that GRUB cannot find my /boot/grub/menu.lst (Listing 2)

Listing 1 - /etc/fstab

/dev/hde11 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hde13 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hde12 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 notauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Listing 2 - /boot/grub/menu.lst

default 0
timeout 0
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hde13 hdb=ide-scsi


It is important to say that my /dev/hde equals hd0 in grub

I hope somebody can help me

[taskara]

firstly, the "power down" line when you shutdown is there because you do not have power management (or more likely ACPI) support compiled into your kernel - OR linux can't tell your mainboard to shutoff.

try compiling "acpi" support and add "button" support

next, when you ran "grub" what did you type for the root command ?

cause it's suppossed to point to your /boot partition, not /

so you should have typed:
root (hd0,10)
setup (hd0,10)
quit


also you seem to have left a few things out of your menu.lst file.
it should look like this:

default 0
timeout 0
splashimage=(hd0,10)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=linux
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hde13 hdb=ide-scsi


hope that solves your problems!

[insomniac]

I had the same problem. I have an ASUS A7V133 mainboard and use APM, not ACPI. When configuring the kernel, I had mistakenly checked the "Use Real mode to power off" option. Unchecking this option and recompiling the kernel solved it.
On some BIOS-es, especially some laptops, the opposite will do the trick (selecting the option as checked...)
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