From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 10 08:31:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08499 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 08:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08493 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 08:31:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.131]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA255F; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:30:48 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:38:21 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: ARUN KRISHNASWAMY Subject: RE: HDD refuses to sync before shutting down. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Jan-99 ARUN KRISHNASWAMY wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >> >> What you forget to mention is what parameters ye are feeding shutdown. >> >> `shutdown' normally is for going to single user mode, after that one has >> to >> do a `reboot' to ensure proper shutdown of the OS. >> >> from man shutdown(2): A terminate signal is then sent to init(8) to >> bring >> the system down to single-user state (depending on above options). > > Hi, > > I normally use 'shutdown -h now', or 'shutdown -r now', when I > want to boot in to Linux. It is with these commands that the sync > refuses to occur. It works on the generic kernel, but not with the one I > compiled. Thanks anyway. But do ye bother to do a reboot command after it has booted to single user mode? Or do ye just powercycle it? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message