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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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.


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