Power up on Power Restore
05/03/24 15:41 Filed in: Systems Administation
Power up on Power On is fairly important for people running servers … but its a little tricky if you are recycling Mac Minis for hosting VM hosts (eg Proxmox)
Fortunately some others have done good work and worked out the magic commands you need.
Fortunately some others have done good work and worked out the magic commands you need.
To make your Mac Mini power on at startup you need to configure LPC Interface. Use 'lspci' to work out which controller you have and then configure it to restart on power on. Two common ones for Mac Minis are:
00:03.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
For more information head to the source at https://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2011/09/mac-mini-rebooting-tweaks-setpci-s-01f0.html
00:03.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
setpci -s 0:03.0 0xa4.b=000:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
setpci -s 0:1f.0 0xa4.b=0For more information head to the source at https://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2011/09/mac-mini-rebooting-tweaks-setpci-s-01f0.html