Automatic timed boot up problem

[Wes]

My MB is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with an Athlon XP3200 CPU. The BIOS has this nifty timed boot up feature. I can set my computer to boot up at a fixed time every morning.

Trouble is that it doesn't work after a normal shutdown (halt or poweroff) of my system. To get it to work, I have to start a reboot and then push the power button, turning the computer off in the next boot sequence before grub takes over.

My kernel is 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 and I have ACPI enabled.

Can anyone tell me a way to shutdown my computer normally without interfering with the automatic power up feature? Is there perhaps a combination of parameters for shutdown that will do the trick?

Thanks!

[FcukThisGame]

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[Wes]

Thanks for the reply, but 'shutdown -h now' is no better than 'halt' or 'poweroff'. (Isn't it equivalent to 'halt'?)

Let me be clear. My system shuts down properly with all these commands. But the 'automatic power up' feature of the A7N8X Deluxe BIOS is disabled. My system doesn't COME BACK UP at the time I've set in CMOS. To get it to do that, I have to do a reboot - and then turn the computer off manually before the boot loader (grub) takes over.

The problem seems to be that when I do a normal shutdown ('halt', 'poweroff', 'shutdown -h', 'shutdown -hH') the kernel ACPI remains in control of the power and disables the automatic power up feature of my BIOS.

I wouldn't mind so much if I could set things up in such a way that when I do a software shutdown, ACPI gives up control of the the power button. Maybe recompile the kernel with a different ACPI configuration? Here's what I have now:

[*] ACPI Support │ │
│ │ [*] Sleep States │ │
│ │ [ ] /proc/acpi/sleep (deprecated) │ │
│ │ <*> AC Adapter │ │
│ │ < > Battery │ │
│ │ <*> Button │ │
│ │ <*> Video │ │
│ │ < > Generic Hotkey (EXPERIMENTAL) │ │
│ │ <*> Fan │ │
│ │ <*> Processor │ │
│ │ <*> Thermal Zone │ │
│ │ < > ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras │ │
│ │ < > IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras │ │
│ │ < > Toshiba Laptop Extras │ │
│ │ (0) Disable ACPI for systems before Jan 1st this year │ │
│ │ [ ] Debug Statements │ │
│ │ [ ] Power Management Timer Support │ │
│ │ < > ACPI0004,PNP0A05 and PNP0A06 Container Driver (EXPERIMENTAL) │ │

Any help would be appreciated.

Wes