[BusyBox] Rebooting the system?

[Steven Scholz]

Jean Wolter wrote:
> 
> Michael Boman <michael.boman at securecirt.com> writes:
> 
> > I am trying to get BusyBox's 'reboot' command just to plainly reboot the
> > system (very much as the small button on the front panel does). I have
> > a small /bin/ash script that does a custom hands-off installation of
> > Linux and I would like it to just reboot the system once done. Everytime
> > I try to execute the reboot command I get "Kernel panic: Attempted to
> > kill init!". Could anyone give me a clue about this matter?
> 
> Busybox reboot doesn't work. This was reported at least twice and you
> can find an explanation for the kernel panic in
> http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2002-October/012385.html.
> 

I am using busybox with linuxppc-2.4.19 on a powerpc MPC855T and reboot work's
fine.
The reason seems to be that there are plattform specific versions of
machine_halt() and machine_restart()...

Steven