[PLUG] Shutting down without a monitor

[Fedor Pikus]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:24:40 -0800, Richard C. Steffens
<rsteff.l at comcast.net> wrote:
> it stayed off. When that happens, I shut down the machines. Without a
> monitor, I know what to do for my Win98 machine: <ctrl><alt><del> <tab> <tab>
> <enter> will cause Windows to go through a shut down process and power off
> the box.
> 
> Is there a similar sequence I can use for Linux?
If you have recent PC and kernel, you can get ACPI support to work. By
"recent" I don't mean super-modern, I have ACPI working on a
3-years-old motherboard with 2.4.26 kernel. You may have to figure out
how to configure it after it's working, but at least on Fedora Core 1,
out of the box, pressing the power button initiates the shutdown.

Otherwise, the easiest is probably to do Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-Delete
(this initiates reboot) and then wait for the sign that PC is booting
up (usually it'll beep when it's POSTing) and power it off.

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