Idea #6679: Include entry "Shutdown" in GRUB boot menu

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Written by steve196 the 9 Apr 08 at 08:00. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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or react to the power button with a shutdown.

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fabioamd87 wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 10:13

Mybe is not true, but when you have the grub screen no operating system is loaded, then you can force the shutdown with button without problems

SeySayux wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 11:06

Press 'q', type 'halt'. Problem solved. Or add this to your menu.lst:

title Halt
halt

title Reboot
reboot

- sey

carsses wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 11:33

yes and I think ,.., when I install ubuntu and the Grub, I would like key to the Grub.

Es:
Si y yo pienso..., Cuando instalo ubuntu y el Grub, Me gustaría candar con clave el Grub

vexorian wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 12:04

Grub's shutdown doesn't work in my computer. It just makes the screen black, does not shut down.

Asa.Ayers wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 14:55

I don't see how this could be a common problem that would need changing. The only time I've ever shutdown from grub is when I accidentaly rebooted instead of shutdown. If that happens I just hold the power button for a few seconds.

steve196 wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 20:29

Of course you can write stuff into menu.lst.
But this is an unelegant solution, because after every kernel update you have to either keep the hand edited menu.lst and add the new kernel by hand, or you have to let it overwrite the hand edited file and then add your own stuff again.

(There are ideas somewhere on this site, to make the update handle hand-edited menu.lst more intelligently, but at the minute it just replaces the file)

Eldmannen wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 21:02

GRUB is a bootloader, and booting is what it does.

Auzy wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 01:08

Yeah, I dont really see the point of this.

Easy solution, DONT boot up! Then u wont need to shut down

banana wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 07:05

As said by others,

either add
title Halt
halt

title Reboot
reboot
after the ### END AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

or press the power button during grub for more than 2~3 sec.
if it does not shut down (which would suprise me) it is a bug in grub and should be reported in launchpad as such.

Eric89GXL wrote on the 22 Apr 08 at 00:38

This would be nice for those of us who don't sit close to our computers. Mine is a media PC, which sits about 15' away from me. I remotely power on using my keyboard or mouse, so I don't need to be close to my computer. In the rare instances I accidentally reboot or power on (which just happened), it would be nice to have the shutdown option. Why not include it?

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