Re: problematic poweroff on shutdown
On 2012-01-03, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>
>> Now you say rebooting requires and entails the exact same electrical
>> event as a poweroff? I don't quite understand. You mean that reboot
>> powers off the machine, and then turns it back on again immediately,
>> whereas a shutdown/poweroff simply powers the machine off? =20
>
> Isn't that the way that it works? I always thought that it did. All
> of the behavior indicates to me that it does. But I could easily be
> wrong about it. Perhaps one of our loyal readers will know the answer
> off the top of their head and will type in a response concerning
> actual power supply operation. Otherwise I will need to put a probe
> on the power pins and determine the answer by looking.
Wikipedia says a soft reboot involves restarting the computer under
software control without removing power, whereas a hard reboot according
to them is some sort of unfortunate accident (or desperate last-ditch
alternative to an unresponsive system) in which the power is cut and
then restored without a proper shutdown procedure having taken place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebooting_(computing)
Reply to: