On 11/23/2014 12:20 PM, Thomas Eriksson wrote: > On 11/23/2014 12:02 PM, Edward M wrote: >> On 11/23/2014 10:58 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >>> Everyone, >>> >>> I have installed Centos 7.0 on my homework machine in order to take a >>> test drive with it, and am low on the learning curve with it at this >>> point. I have a small Gateway SX2855-UB12P. >>> >>> I have a critical hurdle in that when I try a reboot or when I do a >>> 'shutdown now -r' command the system will start a reboot process but >>> hangs right after the os choices are presented. >>> >>> My install process started with the server version, and I added the >>> gnome desktop latter. I also changed the boot level to 5. >>> >>> Has anyone else had this problem, or any suggestions as to a remedy. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Greg Ennis >>> >>> >>> >> Centos 7 runs systemd ,so >> may need to use 'systemctl reboot' to reboot and 'systemctl >> poweroff' to shutdown system. >> I suggest to read systemctl manpage ( towards the end) > I think the shutdown command on CentOS 7 already reflects that. > > # ls -l /usr/sbin/shutdown > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Oct 23 16:52 /usr/sbin/shutdown -> > ../bin/systemctl > # ls -l /usr/sbin/reboot > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Oct 23 16:52 /usr/sbin/reboot -> ../bin/systemctl > > Thanks for the tip. I always use systemctl command, was not aware it was linked.