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What files and configurations do I need to initiate a proper system shutdown from a boot disk? When I try to shutdown, I get the message 'You don't exist. Go Away'.
How do I fix this?
Boot disks are (from my understanding anyway) a way to boot your computer, not to shut it down. That's a pretty funny message though, good thing you aren't suicidal. huh huh
How are you trying to shutdown? Who are you trying to shutdown with? Just like pickledbeans said:
give a "halt" or a "shutdown -h now" or "restart" or "init 6" or "shutdown -r now" or "reboot"
Do you mean a disk to boot your system with or a rescue disk?
There should be a script called mkbootdisk or something
like that? You could also create a lilo boot disk.
As MasterC suggested , the purpose of a boot is bring
the systems up to production mode which generaly means
run level 3 (init 3) also called multi-user mode.
And long the why bring up the network, start services
and mount filesytems. End with a loginin prompt:
Fron there you can log in and shutdown the system down.
Originally posted by pickledbeans Do you mean a disk to boot your system with or a rescue disk?
There should be a script called mkbootdisk or something
like that? You could also create a lilo boot disk.
As MasterC suggested , the purpose of a boot is bring
the systems up to production mode which generaly means
run level 3 (init 3) also called multi-user mode.
And long the why bring up the network, start services
and mount filesytems. End with a loginin prompt:
Fron there you can log in and shutdown the system down.
I'm creating a rescue disk. But I want to cleanup and shutdown nicely just as I would from a regular system.
If someone can tell me the config files that shutdown accesses that would be great.
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