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Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?



By reading recent kernel source, I found new way (SMP friendly) is:

append="apm=power-off mem=256M"

I never done it ..

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:04:19PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:30:28AM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent
> > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ?
> 
> You can do that with any Linux.  Suppose you have 256MB RAM and APM
> enabled MB, add following to /etc/lilo.conf
> 
> append="apm=on mem=256M"
> 
> and run lilo.  Then "shutdown -r now".

Also, this reboot garantees kernel to read boot parameter.  lilo will
not change running kernel option.
 

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