Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:58:28 +0000 (IST) From: ARUN KRISHNASWAMY <kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990110215628.7114A-100000@giasmda> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990110144631.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > What you forget to mention is what parameters ye are feeding shutdown. > > `shutdown' normally is for going to single user mode, after that one has to > do a `reboot' to ensure proper shutdown of the OS. > > from man shutdown(2): A terminate signal is then sent to init(8) to bring > the system down to single-user state (depending on above options). Hi, I normally use 'shutdown -h now', or 'shutdown -r now', when I want to boot in to Linux. It is with these commands that the sync refuses to occur. It works on the generic kernel, but not with the one I compiled. Thanks anyway. - arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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