Shutdown hangs at: "ACPI_power_off_called".

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:34:02PM -0700, Bill Stoye wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 10:15 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:45:23AM -0700, Bill Stoye wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:36 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately, that isn't complete (you can see that it is cut off at the
> > > > beginning).  Try "dmesg -s 100000" or similar.
> > > 
> > > I don't know what the beginning should look like but I checked that the
> > > first and last lines were copied; following is all that is printed out
> > > in the terminal using the new command.
> > 
> > Try booting with (each individually) "noapic", "pci=noacpi", "acpi=off" and
> > see if any of those help.
> 
> What file do I need to edit?

When your system is booting, press ESCAPE at the countdown, press 'e' to
edit the command line, move to the line which says 'kernel', press 'e' to
edit it, add the parameters to the end, press enter, then press 'b' to boot.

-- 
 - mdz