>> The problem seems to be in /etc/init.d/reboot at these lines. Interesting -- my /etc/init.d/reboot ($Id: reboot,v 1.4 1995/06/22 18:46:26 imurdock Exp $) doesn't have those lines, but instead has: echo -n "Unmounting file systems... " umount -a 2>/dev/null # If root is mounted read-only the above will have failed. umount -a -n echo "done." which works well enough...