Re: Lilo and Shutdown

[Tom Burke <tomii siu edu>]

Stefan Davids wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Actually, -h option sends the processor the HLT (halt) instruction,
causing the
system to hang... 

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