Re: Lilo and Shutdown

[David Hedtke <dhedtke sdn-ts-012mokcitp12 dialsprint net>]

Bryan,
 
> What is the proper way to shutdown?  I use shutdown -r now, or init, or
> reboot- all of which restart my computer and bring me back to the lilo
> prompt.  This is fine, except if I want to safely shutdown from linux, I
> prefer not to wait for win95 to boot so I can park the hard drive from
> there.  Is there a way to truly shutdown from linux?  Or, how do I
> configure lilo so that it just boots the dos prompt rather than windows?
> This would also be very helpful.

For starters, if you have a newer EIDE drive, these things have autopark.  All Windiows 95 does is close all current running applications, and then tell you it's ok to turn off your computer.  If you are really looking for something along these lines, try halt on the linux prompt.  I think you'll get what you are looking for.

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