Disabling Acpi Soft-Off With Management; Chkconfig Management - Red Hat CLUSTER SUITE FOR ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.1 Configuration Manual

Chapter 2. Before Configuring a Red Hat Cluster
• Changing the BIOS setting to "instant-off" or an equivalent setting that turns off the node
without delay
Note
Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with the BIOS may not be possible with some
computers.
• Appending
acpi=off
Important
This method completely disables ACPI; some computers do not boot correctly if
ACPI is completely disabled. Use this method only if the other methods are not
effective for your cluster.
The following sections provide procedures for the preferred method and alternate methods of
disabling ACPI Soft-Off:
• Section 3.1, "Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with
• Section 3.2, "Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with the BIOS"
• Section 3.3, "Disabling ACPI Completely in the
3.1. Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with
You can use
chkconfig
daemon ( ) from
acpid
Note
This is the preferred method of disabling ACPI Soft-Off.
Disable ACPI Soft-Off with
1. Run either of the following commands:
•
chkconfig --del acpid
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to the kernel boot command line of the
management to disable ACPI Soft-Off either by removing the ACPI
management or by turning off
chkconfig
management at each cluster node as follows:
chkconfig
— This command removes
/boot/grub/grub.conf
Management"
chkconfig
— First alternate method
File" — Second alternate method
grub.conf
Management
chkconfig
acpid
from
acpid
file
— Preferred method
.
chkconfig