Re: GRUB 0.90 disables Windoze NT 4.0 power down

[Derrik Pates]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:44:03PM +0200, Dan Fulger wrote:
>     Windoze NT 4.0 became unable to power down the computer when I upgraded 
> from GRUB 0.5(Mandrake 8.0) to 0.90 (Mandrake 8.1). My BIOS is an Award 6.0.
>     I have disabled apm.c in GRUB to make it work. I guess the cause is that 
> GRUB doesn't release its APM connection on exit. Linux power down did work, 
> however, because Linux disconnects any previous connection (function 0x5304).

Get and use GRUB 0.91. This was a known bug in 0.90, because GRUB didn't
disconnect from the APM BIOS before it proceeded to boot the OS.

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