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Old 11-06-2003, 02:12 PM   #1
ceph
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poweroff will not halt system


I run redhat 8.0. It doesn't matter if I use "shutdown -h now" or /sbin/poweroff, it will restart the computer. how do I get it to halt? could this be a problem with the bios? any help would be appreciated.

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Old 11-06-2003, 02:44 PM   #2
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Does 'init 0' halt the system?
 
  


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