Try "shutdown -h now" to halt the system this should unmount all the disks that are mounted on your computer...or are you allready trying that?
sorry i cant help with the rest im a newbe myself.
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You could try as root
init 6
as I belive levels 5 and 6 are reserved for reboot and shutdown. the shutdown command I always need to type 10 times so I intended to alias the command then found that SuSe had saved me the job with restart and halt commands installed in /sbin
The problem problem of remembering the command is that every time you get it right the computer shuts down and you forget to write the command down on boot up
Sorry cant help try
man shutdown
and go through my procedure maybe you will find the answer.
Chears
Owen
On 17-Oct-01 NuTTeR wrote:
Try "shutdown -h now" to halt the system this should unmount all the disks that are mounted on your computer...or are you allready trying that?
sorry i cant help with the rest im a newbe myself.
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Date: 17-Oct-01 Time: 23:06:42
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 oms101@freeuk.com wrote:
as I belive levels 5 and 6 are reserved for reboot and shutdown. the shutdown command I always need to type 10 times so I intended to alias the command then found that SuSe had saved me the job with restart and halt commands installed in /sbin
Not quite runlevel 5 on Redhat runs X!
man init will tell you that
Runlevels 0, 1, and 6 are reserved. Runlevel 0 is used to halt the system, runlevel 6 is used to reboot the system, and runlevel 1 is used to get the system down into single user mode.
btw if your x86 box is in runlevel 0 then it is switched off but on some architectures it means the machine is actually in a system maintenance mode but I have only ever seen this once myself on some very strange hardware and may now be a nice legacy from the olden days of Unix or on very odd computers.
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