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Re: Why halt does reboot?



> On May 16, Lease, Mike illuminated with a virtual pen  :

> You probably have the "AUTO_ACTION" environment variable in SRM
> set to "BOOT" instead of "HALT".  Try halting the machine, then
> as the SRM prompt is about to come up (but before it actually
>
I'd be surprised if this does fix the problem.  Th auto_action var (in my
expereince) only has an effect when the machine is coming up, rather than
shutting down.
The alphas I've played with have auto_action set to boot, and they all halt
to SRM okay.


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