I’m trying to enable my Mac Mini (late 2012) running HA OS to auto boot after power failure.
Most articles online I see recommend using setpci to enable this feature.
@reboot /usr/bin/setpci -s 00:1f.0 0xa4.b=0
I have been able to install pciutils using:
apk add pciutils
but then setpci command gives me the following error:
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.0/config
I can see the file is rw and I am running as root.
Does anyone have an idea what I’m doing wrong?
For me I just use the command line tools in HA to do that. The problem with restarting a Mac is that you need super user permissions (sudo) which can be problematic if trying to do it on a headless command. You can, however, have Applescript do the job for you using System Events by issuing the following command via a remote SSH:
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to restart'
Perhaps that will give you some better results. You will want to set up a stored SSH key on HA (ssh-keygen) so you don’t have to log into the SSH request, but otherwise it should be straight forward.
@mdvickst I had the same issue. Simply create a Ubuntu Live USB, start it up and run the command from there. The setting is persistent on my Mac Mini Mid 2011. Details can be found here: https://williamlam.com/2013/02/enable-auto-startup-after-power-failure.html
I got it working on HA OS with this addon:
This. This is the way
