Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 01:26:42 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Billy Newsom <smartweb@leadhill.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200502010126.42611.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <41FE414F.1050001@leadhill.net> References: <41FE414F.1050001@leadhill.net>
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 01:01 am, Billy Newsom wrote: > I need to do a cold restart. I've looked through a lot of docs, and I > can't seem to find this out. The computer I am working with seems to no > longer enjoy a warm reboot (like "shutdown -r now" or "reboot") but I'm > pretty sure it will do cold reboots fine. Is there a port, or is the > shutdown command hackable for this, or what? > Try the man page for 'shutdown'. # shutdown -h now will cause a controlled shutdown finishing with a message to "press any key to reboot". At this stage you can switch off. If your computer supports programmed power off then you can also use: # shutdown -p now which will end with powering down your machine. > I remember many computers in bygone years which had this problem. It was > pretty common back in the 90's it seems like. Computers would reboot and > act weird using CTRL-ALT-DELETE, but work fine when powered off and on. > Yes I've also experienced this. I always suspected it was one or other peripheral device that is only reset on power down; but I really don't have any justification for this assumption. Malcolm
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