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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!hela.iti.org!usc!isi.edu!allard From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: how to shutdown -todos? Message-ID: <22250@venera.isi.edu> Date: 20 Aug 92 23:34:16 GMT References: <aeYd02P=1eZk01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <22231@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@isi.edu Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Distribution: world Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Lines: 22 Keywords: shutdown, booting gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) writes: > I (allard@isi.edu) wrote: > > I notice two shutdown programs. > > ... > Try "/sbin/shutdown -h now". Its in that man page somewhere. I just saw that agate.berkeley.edu has a FAQ entry for this, viz: (faq is in agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/) 2.43 The "shutdown -todos" command doesn't work. There are two flavors of this problem. The first is if your path is set so that you are using the wrong "shutdown" command. The second is that it gives the message "can not make DOS partition bootable". This will not work if your partition is larger than about 30K (the point at which DOS will use a 16 bit FAT). Apparently, it will only work with 8 bit FATs, so if it is possible, use a smaller DOS partition, or several smaller partitions instea of one large one. Dennis allard@isi.edu