inittab ignored by reboot / halt

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sun Oct 26 09:28:00 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 07:50:06 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > If I run "halt -f" or "reboot -f" the system reboots fine,
> >
> > It does the "hard reboot" by asking kernel to do it immediately.
>
> Doesn't quiesce the system.  I believe it doesn't even sync.  But yeah, it
> should shut it down.

just -f should sync.  that is usually what the -n option is for:
   -n Don't sync before reboot or halt.
-mike
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