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Title: auto startup/shutdown in advmenu/linux
Post by: whammoed on July 15, 2004, 08:48:31 pm
Does anyone know how to automatically boot into advmenu using linux? (not using X)  Also automatically shutting down from advmenu would be a plus.
Title: Re:auto startup/shutdown in advmenu/linux
Post by: whammoed on July 15, 2004, 09:53:37 pm
Never mind about the startup, i found this:
http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kelloggt/gentoomamecab.html
I recommend if you will be using linux you bookmark it and better yet print it out in case it goes away.

I still need help getting it to shut down from advmenu so any help would be appreciated.
Title: Re:auto startup/shutdown in advmenu/linux
Post by: GadgetGeek on July 15, 2004, 10:42:52 pm
Does anyone know how to automatically boot into advmenu using linux? (not using X)  Also automatically shutting down from advmenu would be a plus.
I haven't dug through it yet, but I would think if you looked at the AdvanceCD scripts, you should be able to see what they are doing.  IIRC, once you leave advanceMenu, it goes into shutdown.
Title: Re:auto startup/shutdown in advmenu/linux
Post by: whammoed on July 15, 2004, 11:15:00 pm
there is a shutdown event (default is ctrl esc) which is supposed to call /sbin/shutdown
doesn't do anything for me though.  My user does not have permission to do shutdown though.  Maybe this is the problem and I need to figure out how to give my user this permission somehow?