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Rebooting without rebooting
Authored by: uochris on Mar 03, '03 05:49:10PM

How do you shutdown after booting in to single user mode and get the computer to actually shutdown. When I boot in to single user mode and run shutdown now, it starts the process but after some error messages I get put back to the # prompt. I can do a reboot and it restarts the machine but I need to be able to turn the computer off from the command line when booted into single user mode. I'd like to be able to verify that the machine recognizes newly installed RAM without having to go to the whole welcome movie and registration process on new machines.



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Rebooting without rebooting
Authored by: ScottSO on Nov 26, '03 09:49:43AM
The '-h' option should tell shutdown to turn the machine off.

prompt% shutdown now -h

It may be "-h now" I can't remember what the order is.

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