Subject: Re: shutdown -r doesn't
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Hauke Fath <bg5@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/09/1996 19:55:32
>> My SE/30 doesn't reboot when a shutdown -r is issued.  It syncs disks, etc,
>> but then tells me that MacBSD doesn't trust itself to write to pram on
>> shutdown, and then it just sits there...
>
>Weird... I've never exeperienced this unless there's some process or
>device stalled in an unusual state.  Even so, it usually does reboot
>after a while.

Huh!?
I have never had a kernel on my SE/30 that actually rebooted the box after
a "shutdown -r now". I thought this was the way things are? What's the
trick?

>Which kernel are you using?  Does it change the symptom if you change
>the kernel?
>
>ken

Nope. Not one from two dozen self-compiled kernels did...



	hauke

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