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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] shutting down
  • Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:47:16 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

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


halt does not seem to unmount the drive - when I boot into linux again later it does a long check.


I could change inittab from:
shutdown -t5 -rf now
(-t5 = 5 sec warning, -rf reboot fast) to
shutdown -h now - halt after shutdown

But this also seems to result in checking the drive after I boot back to linux next time. Maybe I am not waiting long enough. Is there some signal that it is ready to turn off?

I almost never want to reboot to DOS after shutting down linux - do other people? If I did, I would type reboot instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del.


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org




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