Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:49:54 +600 CDT From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com> To: owner-questions@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sync and Reboot question. Message-ID: <C310A5414F8@bldg1.croute.com>
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| From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> | Yes, you wont lose any data after doing a sync, although the FS may still | be left in a strange state. FreeBSD has had this problem as long as I | have been using it (a couple of years). People keep blaming it on | "faulty" BIOS's, however after seeing the problem on three different | computers with three different BIOS's which were in all other aspects fine, | I am forming the opinion that it is just one of the nastier features of | FreeBSD. | FWIW... I've run 2.1.0-R on 2 different 486 MBs at home (both PCI) and a couple of no-name 486's along with an Asus P55TP4/Intel P75 here and haven't seen this yet. All are either Award or AMI bios. On the other hand, all my Unix systems have a /.shut script (500 permissions) that essentially looks like this: # cd / /sbin/shutdown -h now The path to shutdown varies based on platform (Sun 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD). For me the "press any key to restart" is a welcome annoyance. I have a different problem with TCP/IP that I'll post separately. cheers, larry
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