Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:38:21 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: ARUN KRISHNASWAMY <kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down. Message-ID: <XFMail.990110173821.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990110215628.7114A-100000@giasmda>
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On 10-Jan-99 ARUN KRISHNASWAMY wrote: > 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. But do ye bother to do a reboot command after it has booted to single user mode? Or do ye just powercycle it? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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