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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: PC keeps rebooting after install Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 02:15:54 GMT Message-ID: <C3r7MJ.734@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <6496@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1nhsb9INN63p@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Mar11.010233.29306@netcom.com> Lines: 22 In article <1993Mar11.010233.29306@netcom.com> pascal@netcom.com (Richard Childers) writes: > mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > >When fsck corrects an error on booting, a certain infamous bug in init > >will cause the boot sequence to continue even as it's trying to reboot. > Can't this be worked around with an explicit "sync ; sync ; sync ; halt" ? An even simpler solution, which is handy in other cases, is put a loop like this at the start of /etc/rc: for i in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 do echo -n " ^MDisk check in $i seconds..." sleep 1 done That gives you a nice safe place to ^C into single-user mode anyway. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.