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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > If you don't like CTRL-ALT-DEL, you can execute:  reboot
> 
> Then it not only shuts down but reboots (back to DOS if 
> booting with loadlin, or to linux with lilo).  Sometimes 
> I don't wait long enough and turn it off accidentally 
> before it starts rebooting, and it has to check the hard 
> disk next time.   A shutdown command makes it more obvious 
> when it is ready to turn off.
> 
> I use shutdown -h now in BL2 to avoid this.

halt does the same thing.  If you look at /etc/inittab
in BL3, you will see that CTRL-ALT-DEL calls /sbin/reboot.
Feel free to change that to /sbin/halt.

Cheers,
Steven