Automatic Reboot?

David Wadson wadson at shaw.ca
Tue Oct 5 07:08:43 MDT 2004


Some of the older Power Macs, don't support the Energy Saver control 
panel but instead use "Auto Power On/Off". I've installed OS 8.6 
recently on some 7100s and 8100s and they use that.

Dave

On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, at 07:20  AM, Eric D wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>> > 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.



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