Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:51:12 -0500 (EST) From: "David Radovanovic" <dave@whatsthebigidea.com> To: "Ron Gilbert" <lists@rzweb.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message-ID: <3518.204.210.136.71.1100029872.squirrel@whatsthebigidea.com> In-Reply-To: <680B1855-3287-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com> References: <680B1855-3287-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com>
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> I just installed 5.3-release, and everything is working great, except > when I shut down. Every-time I reboot, I get errors that say the > drives were not shut-down properly and it runs fsck. I am doing > shutdown and everything seems OK. > > After the shut-down process, it says "to enter a shell or hit return > for /bin/sh". Unlike Redhat, it never says it's safe to shutdown the > machine. Is this correct, or am I doing some thing wrong to shutdown > and/or reboot. > > This is a older machine and does not have the power-off support. > > Ron > >From one newbie (two years) to another. If you need to, then a graceful shutdown is the way to go, i.e. shutdown -h now or just shutdown -h. Maybe there someone out there that knows better. Good Luck, David Radovanovic WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. -- Creative ideas for the Web and beyond! 249 Partition Street Saugerties, NY 12477 (845)247-0909 http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com
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