something wrong with"shutdown"

[Dany]

to turn the power off automatically, you should use :  shutdown -p now   
instead of the -h which gives you this message.

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>On Friday,  2 January 2004 at  4:25:49 +0800, dc wrote:
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>>      Versino 4.9....whenever i use the command "shutdown"or "halt"to
>>shutdown the power,system display"type anykey to reboot"so computer
>>reboot~and i have to boot windows(i installed FREEBSD and
>>WINDOWS2000).
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>Why?
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>>       Someone told me to configue the kernel.Add "device acpica"to
>>the kernel and make it ~I did so,nothing changed,porblem is still
>>there.HELP~!
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>It's almost impossible to guess what your problem is.  Obviously
>shutdown works.  Did you install the boot selector?  Please:
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>1.  Shut down the machine (with shutdown, not halt).
>2.  When you see "Press any key to reboot", turn the power off.
>3.  Turn the power on.
>4.  Describe *exactly* what happens.
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>Greg
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