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On 13/11/19 08:55, Mick wrote: |
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> NOTE: I only press the power button momentarily. If I press and keep pressed |
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> the power button for a few seconds, then the system powers off instantly |
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> without a graceful shutdown (a.k.a. I then will get a hard shutdown with no |
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> disk syncing or flushing of caches). |
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This is a hardware feature. Now that so much stuff has been moved into |
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software, including control of the power switch!! (hence pressing it |
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triggers acpi and all that sort of stuff, and how you have wake-on-lan, |
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blah blah blah), you need some form of Big Red Switch, and that's it. No |
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matter how borked your system, holding the power button down is supposed |
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to be caught by firmware and kill the power after about five seconds. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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