shutdown not shutting down :-(

[Christian Reiss]

Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote:
>> Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here.
>>
>> I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do
>>
>> # shutdown now
>>
>> It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path.
>>
>> I think that this could be something related to the order in which 
>> partitions are unmounted.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Check if there is a new bios for you PC. I had this to with one of my
> boxes. ACPI (thats what shuts you computer down) didn't work ride. I
> needed to update my bios.
> 

Hey,

Try shutdown -p now.

-Christian

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