Re: Debian 3.0 on AS1000A 5/333 won't shutdown/reboot

[David Duminy <a6r@wanadoo.fr>]

I am not sure this is the easiest way to proceed but why not ??? ;-)

About compiling kernel, I suggest you to install the kernel-package packet. 
This allows you to create a .deb for your customized kernel from the kernel 
sources.

--On jeudi 15 mai 2003 11:02 +0200 Jens Kruse <jens@kruse-kiel.de> wrote:

> David Duminy wrote:
> > > Why does the machine try to boot again after the OS has shutdown?
> > > Because of the flag 0?
> >
> >
> > I set the boot_osflags to 0 and never have this trouble. Maybe the
> > auto_action  make your box boot automatically as soon as it run SRM
> > console. I have never set this flag, so I can't confirm it.
> >
> > But if you set the boot_osflags to a wrong value. Aboot will display a
> > menu allowing you to return to the SRM console.
>
> So I could just create a small script 'halt_9' which runs
> 'echo 9 > /dev/srm/boot_osflags ; shutdown -h now '
> and 9 would be statement 9 of 'aboot.conf':
>
> 0:1/vmlinuz-2.4.18-generic ro root=/dev/sda3
> initrd=initrd.img-2.4.18-generic ...
> 9:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda3
>
> And 9 calls the standard 2.2.20 kernel ...
>
> Sounds cool (and like 'lilo -R') :-)
>
> Thanks and Regards, Jens