Re: Autoboot PowerMac G3


Subject: Re: Autoboot PowerMac G3
From: Paul Westbrook (yellowdog@westbrooks.org)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 20:42:41 MDT


Hello,
    I have found that if you move the Energy Saver control panel into
the Extensions folder, and rename it so that it load before the BootX
extension, that this setting works correctly.

--Paul

At 8:24 PM -0700 9/3/01, Paul Westbrook wrote:

>Hello,
>
> I am having a problem getting my Power Mac G3 to auto-boot when
>the power is restored after a power failure. I have set the
>"Restart after power failure" in the Energy Saver control panel, but
>that setting does not seem to make any difference. I don't know if
>that is because the bootX extension loads the Energy Saver control
>panel.
>
> Is there a setting that I can set from within linux itself?
>(Ideally it would be a text based utility, since this mac does not
>have a monitor attached to it.)
>
> I am looking into getting a UPS, but this problem would still
>exist if the blackout lasted longer than the battery.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Paul Westbrook
>--

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