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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems....
Message-ID: <CEwnn5.MrB@veda.is>
Date: 14 Oct 93 20:59:14 GMT
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Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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Benjamin_Rogers@hmc.edu (Ben Rogers) writes:

>1. Whenever I perform a shutdown, it will restart the system.  It first 
>exits to single user mode, but then when the shutdown is done again, the 
>system will restart.  It doesn't actually boot the computer, but the 
>system will not halt to let me shut off the computer cleanly.

This is probably normal behaviour. RTFM and pay special attention to the
-h flag. If you just switch off the computer anytime between restarting the
BIOS and before the kernel has started executing /etc/rc that should work too,
at least with old, current and forseeable future versions.

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adam@veda.is