Powering The System On And Off; Causing The System To Power-On Automatically - Silicon Graphics Origin200 Owner's Manual

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Chapter 4: Operating an Origin200 System
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Powering the System On and Off

To turn on power to the system (drive, CPU, memory, PCI cards, and so forth), enter this
command:
Ctrl+t pwr u
To turn off power to the system, enter this command:
Ctrl+t pwr d
Be aware that the power-off command does not halt the operating system (IRIX) and
applications gracefully. To shut the system down gracefully, first shut down the
operating system, then turn off power. See "Turning the System On and Off."

Causing the System to Power-On Automatically

You can set the MSC to turn on power to the system automatically when the master
power switch is turned on. (By default, the MSC does not turn on power to the system
until you either press the front power switch, or issue a pwr u command through the AUX
port.)
To cause the system to power on automatically, enter this command:
Ctrl+t aut 1
To cause the MSC to wait for you to press the front panel switch (or issue a pwr u
command), enter this command:
Ctrl+t aut 0
To find out the current setting (automatic power on or not), enter this command:
Ctrl+t aut
You see
if the system is not set to power on automatically, and
0
power on automatically.
Setting the system to automatically power on does not cause it to boot to IRIX. To
Note:
cause the system to automatically load IRIX, set the PROM environment variable
AutoLoad to "yes." See prom(1) for complete information about the system PROM.
if the system is set to
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