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

From: Billy Newsom (billy_at_nlcc.us)
Date: 01/31/05

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To: Xian <ian@codepad.net>

    Xian wrote:

    > On Monday 31 January 2005 18:53, Billy Newsom wrote:
    >
    >>When you flash your BIOS from DOS, it will usually do a cold reboot
    >>when it exits.
    >
    >
    > Does the dos reboot command work? If it does, I'm sure I could dig up a copy
    > of it from one of my disks. I don't know if it is possible to hack the code
    > out that actually does the reboot
    >

    No, because "reboot" is basically the same as shutdown -r now. I've done
    both to no avail.

    Technically, the shutdown command calls either the reboot or halt commands.

    Billy
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