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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 6386 shutdown: I CAN'T BELIEVE at&t was really this stupid!
Message-ID: <8708@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 16 Jun 89 20:08:44 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <483@oglvee.UUCP> jr@oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:

>Think about it.  Not "You MAY reboot the system now."  Not "You may turn the
>power off or reboot the system now."  Oh no.  This is a command.  It says:
>"Reboot the system NOW!"

Well, a common reason to shut down a 386 machine is to bring it up under DOS
or a diagnostic disk, so the message isn't always inappropriate.

Has anyone else had a problem rebooting with ctl-alt-delete after getting
this message?  I generally get a rom diagnostic about a serial port failure
unless I push the reset button or power down after running unix.

Les Mikesell