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Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?



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".

Oh, another way is add apm=on in lilo prompt (press shift to get prompt
if default):

boot: Linux apm=on mem=256M

This is from  http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ch1.html#s1.7.4
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