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From: bill@astph.UUCP (Bill Dripps)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Rebooting Sys V/386
Keywords: shutdown reboot autoboot
Message-ID: <123@astph.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 16:57:30 GMT
References: <419@srs.UUCP> <1991Mar27.183438.14033@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> <8840@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Organization: Philadelphia Phillies
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In article <8840@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) writes:
>src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>
>>>Is there a way to force a sys V/386 3.2 system to reboot?
>
>>'init 6' will shutdown the system cleanly and reboot *without*
>
>I've found that on more systems than not, this does not work and
>instead hangs the computer when it prepares to reboot after shuting down.
>Why?  Got me.  Also, one should note that executing "uadmin 2 1", which

One reason we discovered (why do we always do it the hard way?) is that
large cache disk adapters do not have enough time to flush disk blocks to
the drive before the 'init 6' code jerks the reset line.

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