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Power down chassis into soft off (S4/S5 state). WARNING: This command does
not initiate a clean shutdown of the operating system prior to powering down
the system.
cycle
Provides a power off interval of at least 1 second. No action should occur if
chassis power is in S4/S5 state, but it is recommended to check power state
first and only issue a power cycle command if the system power is on or in
lower sleep state than S4/S5.
reset
This command will perform a hard reset.
diag
Pulse a diagnostic interrupt (NMI) directly to the processor(s).
soft
Initiate a soft-shutdown of OS via ACPI. This can be done in a number of
ways, commonly by simulating an over-temperature or by simulating a power
button press. It is necessary for there to be Operating System support for
ACPI and some sort of daemon watching for events for this soft power to work.
bootdev <device> [<clear-cmos=yes|no>] [<options=help,...>]
Request the system to boot from an alternate boot device on next reboot. The clear-
cmos option, if supplied, will instruct the BIOS to clear its CMOS on the next
reboot. Various options may be used to modify the boot device settings. Run "bootdev
none options=help" for a list of available boot device modifiers/options.
Currently supported values for <device> are:
none
Do not change boot device.
pxe
Force PXE boot.
disk
Force boot from BIOS default boot device.
safe
Force boot from BIOS default boot device, request Safe Mode.
diag
Force boot from diagnostic partition.
cdrom
Force boot from CD/DVD.
bios
Force boot into BIOS setup.
floppy
Force boot from floppy/primary removable media.
bootparam
Get or set various system boot option parameters.
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