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