Re: Lilo and Shutdown

[Stefan Davids <smd maths nott ac uk>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Bryan Coon wrote:

> 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.
> Thanks!
> Bryan

shutdown -h now will do all that shutdown -r now does *except* actually
reboot the computer - I think the kernel just goes into an endless loop
when everything is shutdown and safely unmounted.

As far as Win95 goes I'm pretty sure you can just turn the computer off
without actually shutting it down. Certainly I had to do it enough times
when the thing crashed on me - the only ill effects seem to be a few files
in windows\temp.