Re: Lilo and Shutdown

[Jason Earl <jearl baf com>]

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

Try

shutdown -h now

The -h is for halt.  For a complete list of cool shutdown commands see man
shutdown.

Jason Earl