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On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>
> well, i figured out that if at the boot selection screen, if i choose
> option 2 "boot with acpi enabled", i can then give 'shutdown -p  
> now' and
> the system will then power off properly. easy enough...
>
> but how do i set option 2 as my default boot selection?  i dont see
> anything about this in the handbook.


My experience has been that once you boot that way once it becomes  
the default.  Play around with it

Chad

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