Re: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?

From: Oliver Leitner (Shadow333_at_gmx.at)
Date: 01/31/05

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    To: Billy Newsom <smartweb@leadhill.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:33:42 +0100

    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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