GRUB entry to shutoff the computer?

AJones · 03-10-2007, 04:01 PM

Hi Folks:

I need a GRUB entry to shutoff the computer like booting Linux or WinXP but only to shut off teh computer. What is it.

Thanks
AJ

bulliver · 03-10-2007, 04:10 PM

Strangely enough, the command is 'halt'.
All this is in the grub docs ('info grub')

tredegar · 03-10-2007, 04:11 PM

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I need a GRUB entry to shutoff the computer

If you are at the grub menu, no OS has been loaded. So the "grub entry to shutoff the computer" is the power-off button. It doesn't need a menu entry.

AJones · 03-11-2007, 07:29 AM

Thanks for your replies:

I will look into hakt command. I have used the switch off button on my laptop, this only makes the Laptop initiate GRUB slowly, and once Linux starts it does Checking FS for errors.

Thanks
AJ

tredegar · 03-11-2007, 08:35 AM

If you are at the grub menu, and you have decided to turn off the computer:

Press one of the up/down arrow keys, as if to select something other than the default (this will stop grub timing out & booting the default, grub will just wait for you to press Return when you are happy with your selection).
Instead of pressing Return, press the off button (on my laptop, I think you have to hold it down for 3 sec for it to work).

Or, as bulliver says, look into the halt option for grub.

homey · 03-11-2007, 09:08 AM

In the grub menu, look at those mini instructions. One of the options is to press c for command-line . While in the command-line, you could type help for a list of available commands. There you should see that halt is one of them.
Type: halt while in the command-line