Doesn't the shutdown script use reboot? On Caldera and SuSE,
shutdown -r now
actually goes all the way to a system board reset on my systems.
You're right, reboot stops after exiting the OS.
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Harold Sinclair
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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, C.J. Oster wrote:
> I use debian linux 2.0, with the 2.1.122 kernel. On every kernel version
> I've tried, 'reboot' does a clean shutdown, unmounts the filesystems,
> but does not reboot the machine. The kernel says 'Power Down' and halts.
> Is it the actual shutdown program distriuted with debian? I've never
> encountered this problem with redhat. Thanks for the help.
>
> -CJO-
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> C.J. Oster (Linux Guru/Surge Addict)
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