Stanley A. Klein wrote: I put a more meaningful subject back in... > 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. Why not just create application icon on your desktop and be done with 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. Who are they? I've not heard of that recommendation before....
