On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:33:48 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 14:35:47 GMT, Anton Ertl
> <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>
>>My experience is that LILO systems stay on and Grub systems power off
>>(that's the only reason why I use Grub). I have no idea why.
>
> That's silly. Once lilo or grub have loaded the kernel, they are
> irrelevent to power management.

However the act of /loading/ Grub or lilo into memory can overwrite the
ACPI tables on some buggy implementations (before the OS can copy them).
So thinking that a boot loader can affect power management is not so silly
after all.

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Ben Measures
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