Hi Filippos, Tks for your advice and URL > Notice that the only necessary option for me to avoid the system > freezes is > the 'noapic' > one. The 'noacpi' you have passes effectively turns off completely > the ACPI > power > management and most likely that's why the poweroff does not work. The > 'noapic' > option turns off the IO_APIC. For more info on what APIC does: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO-APIC Sorry, that was my typing mistake. # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf ...... title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2096_FC5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb noapic apm=on quiet .... * * * End * * * B.R. SL
