How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?

Billy Newsom billy at nlcc.us
Mon Jan 31 11:24:30 PST 2005


Xian wrote:

> On Monday 31 January 2005 18:53, Billy Newsom wrote:
> 
>>When you flash your BIOS from DOS, it will usually do a cold reboot
>>when it exits.
> 
> 
> Does the dos reboot command work? If it does, I'm sure I could dig up a copy 
> of it from one of my disks. I don't know if it is possible to hack the code 
> out that actually does the reboot
> 

No, because "reboot" is basically the same as shutdown -r now.  I've done 
both to no avail.

Technically, the shutdown command calls either the reboot or halt commands.

Billy


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