How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?

[Oliver Leitner]

I am not completely sure...

but from what i know bout a COLD Reboot:

just unplug the power cable.

that exactly does what a COLD Reboot does.

Greetings
Oliver Leitner
Technical Staff
http://www.shells.at

On Monday 31 January 2005 15:31, Billy Newsom wrote:
> I need to do a cold restart.  I've looked through a lot of docs, and I
> can't seem to find this out.  The computer I am working with seems to no
> longer enjoy a warm reboot (like "shutdown -r now" or "reboot") but I'm
> pretty sure it will do cold reboots fine.  Is there a port, or is the
> shutdown command hackable for this, or what?
>
> I remember many computers in bygone years which had this problem. It was
> pretty common back in the 90's it seems like.  Computers would reboot and
> act weird using CTRL-ALT-DELETE, but work fine when powered off and on.
>
> The computer I've got actually fails a memory test during the warm reboot.
> This freezes it.  I have to power cycle the machine.  And then, the
> computer performs a warm restart, bypassing its memory checks!  One more
> power cycle laster, it will boot normally.  If I don't do this last reboot,
> the FreeBSD boot loader or the beginning of the kernel boot crashes very
> early.  It's stable otherwise on a cold reboot.
>
> Thanks,
> Billy
>
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