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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:27:25 +0100
From:      Christian Reiss <email@demonlord.de>
To:        freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl
Cc:        Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shutdown not shutting down :-(
Message-ID:  <43F9371D.20101@demonlord.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060220023202.GA59825@Alex1.kruijff.org>
References:  <dt9h0g$7tl$1@sea.gmane.org> <20060220023202.GA59825@Alex1.kruijff.org>

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Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote:
>> Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here.
>>
>> I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do
>>
>> # shutdown now
>>
>> It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path.
>>
>> I think that this could be something related to the order in which 
>> partitions are unmounted.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Check if there is a new bios for you PC. I had this to with one of my
> boxes. ACPI (thats what shuts you computer down) didn't work ride. I
> needed to update my bios.
> 

Hey,

Try shutdown -p now.

-Christian

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