[Feisty] acpi=force

[NoOp]

On 03/28/2007 07:25 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sorry I should have detailed when I wrote:
Nevermind... I figured it out. Had to put it in the default & alt
options & its working fine now.

I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst to:

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash
to
# defoptions=quiet splash acpi=force

and

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(recovery mode) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single
to
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single acpi=force

That seems to work as I went from 12 to 13 and acpi=force stayed in
place & worked.