meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > another >sigh< from an Arietta adventure... > > I sintalled Gentoo on an Arietta G25 > (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta). > > For this I used Robert Nelsons Kernel for armv5tel platforms, > which boots fine (using at91bootstrap, no U-Boot). > > But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems "shutdown -h -H now") > REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. > > The hardware is not to blame: Using the original Debian rootfs > and the kernel 3.16.1 (Robert Nelsons kernel is 3.17.3.) the > powerdown works fine. > > Firstly I blamed the kernel...but when using the 3.16.1 kernel > and the Gentoo rootfs the problem remains. > > Then I copied the Gentoo shutdown to the Debian rootfs, boot that > and tries to shutdown the Debian Linux with it. > shutdown cries "no /dev/initctl" adn shutdowns the system only for > rebooting it. > > Ok...seems to be the shutdown executable. > > I copied the Debian shutdown to Gentoo and tries that: > The systems reboots. > > Slowly but surely I begin to think, that I dont understand anything at all of > It would be relly good news, > that... > > "man shutdown" on the Debian image informs me, that the manpages > were not installed (embedded system...). Shutdown --version gives > a short help of the usual options...but nothing more. > > What is the difference here? > Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send some instructions > to the kernel and the kernel is the main actor in bringing the system > down? > > Is there any shutdown guru ;) out there, who is able to shed some > light into this problem ? :) > > Thank you very much in advance for any torch send into my direction! > Best regards, > Meino >
Just shooting in the dark here, try -h and -H but not at the same time? Maybe having both is clashing in some weird way??? Dale :-) :-)
