Andrey, et al -- ...and then Andrey Repin said... % ... % % If anyone can explain the difference between "halt" and "power off" in the % terms of Linux 'shutdown' man page, I would probably vote for one of the % choices. [snip]
On some machines, halting can leave you at a BIOS/firmware prompt but still powered on, whereas powering off really kills all power once the shutdown is complete. I can't say how the former behaves on your average basic PC but suspect that the last step of halting is to power off since I know of no way to get to the BIOS other than at boot time. HTH & HANW :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt I appreciate everyone's individual tactic in the Spam Wars, but I just don't have the time or energy to captcha or register or whatever to be able to send you email.
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