NASLite Network Attached Storage

When I used Gparted earlier today it struck me that when gparted shut down, my box was actually turned off completely whereas NASLite leaves it running until I do a manual power off using the power button. GParted was run on the exact same hardware so the shutdown routine should be the only difference between the two scenarios. Is this a design choice or is there anyway the same shutdown routine as seen in GParted could/will be implemented in NL as well?

In the status page of your NASLite-2 machine, go to "System Status" and take a look at the "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI):" details. If the "POWER BUTTON" is listed as available, then poweroff should work. If it is unavailable, then you have ACPI incorrectly configured in the BIOS or the BIOS is older than 2000 and ACPI is automatically disabled.

You can also take a look at the syslog for ACPI details.

Hope that helps...

Thanks for the quick reply Tony. Unfortunately I had to disable ACPI in order to get rid of some IRQ conflicts so the power button option is unavailable. Still the shutdown routine to power down the computer in GParted works on the very same box with ACPI disabled whereas NL does not?

NASLite-2 uses ACPI exclusively so if it is disabled in the BIOS, then it will not be available for use by the associated management code.

As its quite common to be forced to disable ACPI to avoid IRQ conflicts, is there anyway you would consider implementing a secondary shutdown routine for systems with ACPI disabled? It's abit of a pain to be forced to go down in the basement to shut the box off manually when it could be done with a simple command from the computer upstairs

I too would like to be able auto power-down my server from time to time, but have found that I have to use the button, so I found this thread interesting.

I have looked at the ACPI status and found it unavailable. I also looked in the Syslog and found the following:

>>> Mar 2 20:45:43 user.notice kernel: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old
>>> Mar 2 20:45:43 user.notice kernel: You can enable it with acpi=force

This gives me a glimmer of hope, but how do I implement "acpi=force"?

I know zilch about unix/linux, but am able to deal with config files etc. so any advice will be gratefully accepted.

Bump!

Any ideas on how to "Force" acpi please?

On the usb drive, the fat boot partition has a file on it called syslinux.cfg that you can edit. Add acpi=force at the append line. ACPI should be on in the bios and APM should be off. That's all there is to it. This works with all versions. For cdd you have to modify the cyclinux.cfg file on the iso. In some cases it may not work because acpi support on some boards is incompatible or plain broken. I think this was mentioned somewhere else on this forum too.

Thanks for the reply Dimension. I will try it as soon as I get the time. Things are rather hectic at the moment.