Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 06:53:46 +0100 (CET) From: List User <listuser@netspace.net.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <199812140553.GAA06522@doorway.home.lan>
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Newsgroups: freebsd.current Path: root From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10207; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:35:42 -0700 (MST) To: imp (Warner Losh) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Private News Host Precedence: bulk Message-ID: <199812132235.PAA10207@usr09.primenet.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Delivered-To: vmailer-current@freebsd.org X-Uidl: 97cda81a83e4da1c5aedeaec8c9de282 X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812110422.VAA65796@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 10, 98 09:22:15 pm Cc: mike, current Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:35:42 GMT > : No. RB_POWEROFF and RB_HALT have very different meanings. The PC > : doesn't have a useful means for getting back to the resident firmware, > : but many other systems do. That's what RB_HALT is meant to do, while > : RB_POWEROFF is meant to power the system down. The two are mutually > : exclusive. > > I know... halt should turn the machine off. Halt should trigger the halt trap, which on an Alpha means putting you into the boot monitor. For the PC, it means putting you in a state where you can hit "DEL" to get the setup, or "CTRL-A" to get into the Adaptec BIOS configuration, etc.. It's not FreeBSD's fault that (most) PC hardware is too stupid to have a boot-ROM that lets you configure things before triggering the boot loader, unless you overrice the default behaviour with keystrokes while it's pounding away at things. Also, I think the correct flag is "-x", not "-p", from a historical (Sony NeWS, NeXTStep, and A/UX, et. al.). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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