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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!seq!faldor From: faldor@seq.uncwil.edu (Sherman Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: how to shutdown -todos? Keywords: shutdown, booting Message-ID: <1992Aug21.161202.17701@seq.uncwil.edu> Date: 21 Aug 92 16:12:02 GMT Article-I.D.: seq.1992Aug21.161202.17701 References: <aeYd02P=1eZk01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <22231@venera.isi.edu> <22250@venera.isi.edu> Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington Lines: 39 allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes: >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 Mine wouldn't shutdown at all to begin with, so I mread from the dist.fs the shutdown on there and used it. From root it works fine I haven't tried from a normal account. Good luck, Faldor ..___________________________________________________________________. | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | | Faldor Inglorion | | faldor@seq.uncwil.edu | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| | Alien Invasion Division : Integration/Substitution Group. (ISG) | ..___________________________________________________________________.