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From: ARUN KRISHNASWAMY <kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in>
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To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
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Subject: RE: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down.
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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


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