From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 13 14:35:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17342 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:35:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17335 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:35:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21481; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:35:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd021470; Sun Dec 13 15:35:43 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10207; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:35:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199812132235.PAA10207@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812110422.VAA65796@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 10, 98 09:22:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : No. RB_POWEROFF and RB_HALT have very different meanings. The PC > : doesn't have a useful means for getting back to the resident firmware, > : but many other systems do. That's what RB_HALT is meant to do, while > : RB_POWEROFF is meant to power the system down. The two are mutually > : exclusive. > > I know... halt should turn the machine off. Halt should trigger the halt trap, which on an Alpha means putting you into the boot monitor. For the PC, it means putting you in a state where you can hit "DEL" to get the setup, or "CTRL-A" to get into the Adaptec BIOS configuration, etc.. It's not FreeBSD's fault that (most) PC hardware is too stupid to have a boot-ROM that lets you configure things before triggering the boot loader, unless you overrice the default behaviour with keystrokes while it's pounding away at things. Also, I think the correct flag is "-x", not "-p", from a historical (Sony NeWS, NeXTStep, and A/UX, et. al.). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message