In message 20130407060507.76fd8bd1.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
This is what shutdown -p now does.
It's times like these than make me want to go off to some dark place and
hang my head in shame.
I confess that I wasn't ever aware of the -p option for shutdown until
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:49:49 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message 20130407060507.76fd8bd1.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
This is what shutdown -p now does.
It's times like these than make me want to go off to some dark place and
hang my head in shame.
No
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
why, when I do shutdown -h now and then let the system come down to
the point where it says Press any key to reboot pressing the power
switch at that point no longer causes the
Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:51:58 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
why, when I do shutdown -h now and then let the system come down to
the point where it says Press any key to reboot pressing the power
switch at
So, um, I just upgraded my main system. Maybe that is too weak a word.
I cannibalized the drives and most of the add-in cards out of my old
system and put them into a new system I built which has a new case,
new motherboard, new CPU, new memory, and a new video card.
So far everything seems to
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:51:58 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
why, when I do shutdown -h now and then let the system come down to
the point where it says Press any key to reboot pressing the power
switch at that point no
Polytropon writes:
But running FreeBSD seems to
cause it (the case power switch) to be ignored.
Check the BIOS settings, the switch should be programmed to
something like soft power-off, it's the other thing to
whatever caption has been chosen for immediately power
off (forced by
