Peter, > Running MacOS 8.1 on my PowerMac 7300, I can use the "Scheduled Startup & > Shutdown" section of the "Energy Saver" control panel to set my PowerMac to > automatically boot up and shut down and specified times. I have > successfully used cron to get Linux to automatically shut down at a > specified time, but I haven't figured out how to get it to boot > automatically. I have my PowerMac setup to boot into Linux by default, and > I if boot into MacOS then shutdown, it will automatically boot at the > specified time, and will boot into Linux. Unfortunately, when I shut down > from Linux, the automatic boot doesn't happen. I'm guessing that MacOS > does something when it shuts down to make the automatic boot happen, and > Linux doesn't do this.
You are correct, Mac OS is modifying the part of NVRAM that controls the automatic power-on function. But now Linux can to! See below. > Does anybody know if there is a way to get my PowerMac to automatically > boot at a specified time after Linux shuts down? Although I haven't used it yet, I found a program called "pmacpow" that can be used to set the next power up time on Power Macs. Found at: <ftp://ppc.linux.or.jp/pub/users/toe/pmacpow-tool/> Referenced on Linuxppc's Power Macintosh Development page at: <http://linuxppc.org/dev/pmac/> For interesting PowerPC "hacks" and other stuff see the LinuxPPC page at: <http://linuxppc.org/> or <http://penguinppc.org/> - Matt -- Matt Christian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.visi.com/~mattc/ ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mattc/ Learn to love and love to learn.
