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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems.... Message-ID: <CEwnn5.MrB@veda.is> Date: 14 Oct 93 20:59:14 GMT References: <CEv1HJ.Cnu@news.claremont.edu> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 14 Benjamin_Rogers@hmc.edu (Ben Rogers) writes: >1. Whenever I perform a shutdown, it will restart the system. It first >exits to single user mode, but then when the shutdown is done again, the >system will restart. It doesn't actually boot the computer, but the >system will not halt to let me shut off the computer cleanly. This is probably normal behaviour. RTFM and pay special attention to the -h flag. If you just switch off the computer anytime between restarting the BIOS and before the kernel has started executing /etc/rc that should work too, at least with old, current and forseeable future versions. -- adam@veda.is