On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:23 -0400, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ---------------------------- > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:26:17 -0500 > From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: How do I get my disk powered down gracefully on my > desktop during system shutdown > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1147872377.2722.1.camel@vulcan> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 17:18 -0500, sklein@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Under FC5 the shutdown process now gracefully powers down my laptop disk > > as the last step during shutdown of the laptop. However, this is not > > happening with my desktop, where the disk does not gracefully power down > > during shutdown. How do I get the desktop disk to gracefully power down > > as its last shutdown step? > > > > > > Stan Klein > I am not sure what you mean. On the desktop exactly what happens when you shutdown? > Does it power down? What does gracefully power down mean? > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Gracefully is what the -h option of poweroff appears to do. It shuts down the drive before shutting down all power. Right now, a shutdown kills all power, and I can hear the drive spin down after the power goes off. On my dual-boot laptop, until FC5, I had to reboot into Windows to get a graceful shutdown. Now the question is how to edit the menu to get the dialogue when I do a non-graphical (run level 3) boot and bring up X by entering startx, versus doing a run level 5 boot directly into X. It turns out the menus you get are different and I need to fix it. I needed to set up the non-graphical boot because my laptop has an Nvidia display and they recommend changing the boot to run level 3. Stan Klein
