[ltp] Re: Shut-down/Halt/Reboot Problem on a ThinkPad T61

[Bernhard Marx]

Daniel Castro <castromd@tcd.ie> writes:

> Anyone any ideas?

Yes, but a vague one. 

> Daniel Castro wrote:

>> Unmount local filesystems
>>
>> Will now halt
>>
>>
>> Then it will be there like for 10 seconds and then it goes to a
>> black screen, with a blinking cursor in the top left of the screen
>> and nothing else will happen after.

It might have to do with ACPI or APM. I remember to have had similar
problems a few years ago with a desktop. 

Try experimenting with the following boot options: noapic, apm=off, noacpi,
acpi=off


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