[Tfug] Shutdown/Grub Question

[Charles R. Kiss]

Why when using "shutdown -h now", or "shutdown -hP now" (the P doesn't 
seem to do anything), my computer (fan+lights) does not fully "halt".  I 
have to perform the additional operation of pushing the Power Button to 
turn the system completely off -which sometimes causes a reboot. 

If after a reboot, I'll get Grub, enter my password, then press 'c' for 
command, where, inside Grub, grub> halt  seems to shutdown, and power 
everything off, without having to press the power button. 

I don't seem to have too many APM options in the BIOS, but I admit I 
haven't tried all (hardly any) of them.

Thanks,
Charles

BTW, conerning an old post "Mount Problems:" I added the hpfsplus tools 
to my package list and mounted that previously unmountable drive; It 
seems the Maxtor, OneTouch 4 750MB has four partitions,"mkfs"says that 
two are too small to put an ext2 filesystem on them, so they must be 
pretty small, don't appear to have any data on them because "dd_rescue" 
didn't show any, either.  Another partition seems to have some data, I 
think it was about 32MB, or 320MB (can't remember) in size more or less, 
probably contained some proprietary  "backup/rescue" programs files; the 
largest partition was the 750GB storage that contained the old MacBook 
files, which seem undamaged.