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- 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>
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- Keywords: shutdown, booting
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- 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
-