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Dhananjay Tanpure
Dhananjay Tanpure

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Add Power Off and Reboot to grub menu

To add Power Off and Reboot options to grub menu, you need to update a file in your grub configuration directory.

cd /etc/grub.d
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Open 40_custom in your favorite editor

For me its micro :

micro 40_custom
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Add following line at the end of the file


 menuentry "Reboot" {
      reboot
}

menuentry "Power Off" {
      halt
}

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Do not change the exec tail line in the file

Update your grub.cfg file

  • For Debian based distros
update-grub
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  • For Arch based and Other distros
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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