Re: Lilo and Shutdown

[Tom Burke <tomii siu edu>]

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 take your system down to a processor halt...  Shut
down from there...
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