Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:20:33 -0800 From: Beech <root@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Mailing List) Subject: Re: emachines power off-on Message-ID: <20010909072034.698E58C2F@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org> References: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org>
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On Saturday 08 September 2001 22:12, Gary Kline wrote:
> Hopefully someone who is using FBSD on an E-machines box
> can give me some clues re _why_ the power off and on
> is so quirky.
>
>
> When I was running SuSE, and did a shutdown -h now, the
> emachines box would shut down and turn the system off.
> Pressing the power button again brought things back up.
> When I installed FreeBSD a few months ago and did a
> shutdown -h now and power off by hand, trying to reset by hand
> did/does nothing. I have to pull out the power cord and
> reinsert it. (Obviously, I could put the power switch on
> a different power bar and hand-reset that way...)
>
> This is a ``safety'' feature or what?! Jeez.... :-)
>
> TIA, y'all,
>
> gary
Try doing a shutdown -p now. The "p" flag is the power down flag. I use an
etower 500ix, and it works fine for me.
Beech
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