I found out that my device uses a PS2 touchscreen ... The mouse driver must be capable of doing this. Ah yes, that's a problem. I think that the mouse driver, which is statically built into the Puppy kernel, must be configured to cope with touchscreen functions. The kernel in Puppy 4.1/4.2 does not...

Success - nailed what was causing the issue. Had a look in init.d to see what was being started - the thing that caught my eye was a modem driver... then the penny dropped. I'd had a Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem card plugged into the PCMCIA slot - removed this and it now shuts down perfectly with ...

A bit of further investigation has revealed the following.... The shutdown sequence is hanging a the point in rc.shutdown which has the following code: for service_script in /etc/init.d/* do [ -x $service_script ] && $service_script stop done If I comment this section out..... BINGO!!! Houst...

/sbin/poweroff does two things 1) runs /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown 2) executes /bin/busybox poweroff If it gets through rc.shutdown you add some options to help the shutdown in the busybox part if that's the hang I believe its hanging in rc.shutdown, as evidenced by the "Puppy is now shutting down ....

do you have initrd.gz on anywhere else (eg hard drive )other than the usb stick? Have you renamed the initrd.gz? mike Thanks for the suggestion Mike - nope no other instances of initrd.gz elsewhere on the Toughbook drives. That said, both the live-CD and USB stick work fine (eg don't hang) if used ...

Try pci=biosirq ... after that we need to consider which Puppy version, which video chip, whether dma is enabled in your bios, etc. No joy again. ok... Latest Puppy Stable (4.2.1) Intel(R) 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset v6.14.10.4277 Bios is a PhoenixBIOS that does not appear to have the capabil...

WhoDo wrote:Try booting with either acpi=off ... which is default for PC's > 2001 and sometimes gives boot/shutdown problems.

Thanks WhoDo .... noticed you had acpi=force as well originally.

Tried both, no joy..... still hangs.... next suggestion?

Thanks

Hi everyone, I've installed Puppy on a bootable USB stick (ext2 partition) which I use with a Panasonic Toughbook CF-29. Puppy boots and runs fine on the Toughbook from the USB or a live-CD. However when I shutdown Puppy it gets to the "Puppy is now shutting down ..." screen after which I ...