Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:10:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: emachines power off-on Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10109091109050.13031-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org>
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There is a setting in the bios to have it not power down. There is a surge safety feature that does require a power cord pull and push to get the power back on.. because after an outage sometimes power remains flaky for several minutes. On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Hopefully someone who is using FBSD on an E-machines box > can give me some clues re _why_ the power off and on > is so quirky. > > > When I was running SuSE, and did a shutdown -h now, the > emachines box would shut down and turn the system off. > Pressing the power button again brought things back up. > When I installed FreeBSD a few months ago and did a > shutdown -h now and power off by hand, trying to reset by hand > did/does nothing. I have to pull out the power cord and > reinsert it. (Obviously, I could put the power switch on > a different power bar and hand-reset that way...) > > This is a ``safety'' feature or what?! Jeez.... :-) > > TIA, y'all, > > gary > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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