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Subject: Re: Power-on and remote power controllers
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> In Mac OS X you can set an option in System Preferences, Energy  Saver, 
> Options: "Restart automatically after a power failure".  It  doesn't 
> appear to be available via nvram, so I'm not sure it can be  changed 
> from FreeBSD or OpenBoot.

  To confirm, I did an nvram dump before/after modifying this setting 
and there was no change. I'm guessing that it results in a command to 
the external PMU.

later,

Peter.