Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:54:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: How to turn off FreeBSD Message-ID: <200309150754.h8F7s4nP000363@ice.nodomain>
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>> > I have a problem turning off my computer after > shutting down FreeBSD. I use 4.5. When I get the > prompt to press any key to continue, I have to "turn > off" the computer 3-5 times. >> Normally there is no special trick to it. You just push the power button. There seems to be some way, probably described in the ACPI standard that I have never read, that the OS can do it on modern machines. My new PC BIOS can allegedly be configured to require that the power button be held down for 4 seconds before it turns off, otherwise it just goes to "sleep". I don't enable that feature, but I do find that when the system is in the "press any key to continue" halted state it seems to ignore the power button. So I press any key and let it reset and start to reboot. Then the power button works. This is indeed a little annoying. I would like to understand why it does this. Dan Strick strick@covad.net
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