In article <20150711015507.GC15806@odin>, Mayuresh <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:42:45PM -0500, Eric Schnoebelen wrote: >> The raspberry pi does not have a mechansism for the software to >> power off the hardware. Thus, all of "poweroff", "halt", >> "shutdown -h" and "shutdown -p" will end up at the "press any >> key to reboot" message. >> >> Yes, it sucks. But it is a side effect of the "power supply" in >> use. > >The problem is more due to voluntary reboot after reaching the reboot >prompt. Because of this behavior, if I am running pi headless, I can >never be sure when to pull the plug. Due to this my FS crashed many times >till now requiring reinstalling image. (Having a separate thread on why >fsck didn't help...) > >On Raspbian I never faced this problem. Probably Raspbian also drops to >reboot prompt (do not recollect now), but it does not reboot, making it >safe to wait for a minute or two and pull the plug.
Update to revision 1.8 in src/sys/arch/arm/arm32/arm32_reboot.c christos
