Re: Lilo and Shutdown (fwd)

[DuWayne Greer <dgreer mnsinc com>]

At 12:42 PM 07/02/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> > 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... 
>> 
>
> Why does it do that??? Why doesn't Linux have a provision to properly shut 
>down the computer like Windoze 95 does or NT ??
>
>/Eleanore
>/ micros50 computer net

shutdown -h now DOES do a proper shutdown of the files and umounts the
drives, THEN sends a halt instruction to the processor (unless something
has been drastically changed since RH 4.1)

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