Automatic Reboot?

[Eric D]

Some Macs required you to physically "twist" the power button to have "auto" 
power on. This essentially meant that the only way to turn the computer off 
was to pull the plug. Is this perhaps the situation?

Eric.


>From: Bill Fink <billfink at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: Yellow Dog Linux General Discussion List 
><yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>To: Drew Lane <drew.lane at earthlink.net>
>CC: Bill Fink 
><billfink at mindspring.com>,yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: Re: Automatic Reboot?
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 00:24:18 -0400
>
>Drew,
>
>On Mon, 04 Oct 2004, Drew Lane wrote:
>
> > Thanks Bill,
> >
> > I did try this a little while ago on the 6360 but I got
> > "kernal access of bad area" error once the rc.local file
> > got loaded.  The 6360 is not a NuBus mac, but it does
> > have a processor upgrade in it.  It's got some version
> > of OS9 on it, so I would think the advanced tab would
> > be there if it were supported.
> >
> > I couldn't verify the 'powerup-boot' file because the gwiz% command
> > doesn't seem to work (not sure what this does).
>
>The "gwiz%" is just the prompt on my system.  It's not part
>of the actual command.
>
> > I will check the battery (it's rigged up with a homemade
> > style thingy I made up, so that could be it).
> >
> > Hopefully this will work on the 7600 which is more important
> > to me anyway.
>
>I believe it should.  I'd try the MacOS control panel method
>first, which hopefully will work fine on the 7600.
>
>						-Bill
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