Chris Olson wrote: > Is there a good source of information about how Linux distributions > and installers identify and interact with the hardware devices in > a system? We are particularly interested in the shutdown process > that leads to complete power-off. Thanks. You mean something more than the shutdown command, or poweroff? The only hardware thing that might conflict with that is a BIOS setting, that offers the option, on powerloss, of restart/stay off/last state. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos