[Feisty] acpi=force

[Tommy Trussell]

On 3/27/07, NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:
> I'm running Feisty on some very old hardware (300MHZ) and in order to
> get the computer to shut down properly on it's own without my manual
> intervention I include acpi=force in the grub menu.
>
> The problem that I am having is that with all of the daily changes in
> Feisty, grub keeps getting rewritten/updated and the acpi=force command
> gets deleted each time. I have even tried placing before the automagic
> kernals list & that hasn't worked. Is there an easier way that I can
> enable this command outside of grub so that it sticks?

I'm in the same boat. I use a lot of cast-off hardware, and some
machines just have to have that to use the power button properly. I
just did a Google search for acpi=force and learned a lot about it.
There's a very interesting Gentoo wiki page that gives me some more
respect for the thought that went into it (though maybe not much more
understanding of it!).

It looks to me like we're stuck having to edit the grub menu.lst file
every time there's a kernel update. You could probably create a shell
script to help update it (or maybe add a script somewhere to get your
attention when menu.lst has changed).

It would be great if there were a "cleaner" way around it, but if you
think about it the problem generally affects machines made for a few
years between the late 1990s and 2001.