Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems shutdown -h -H now) REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. What about halt? man halt The problem I think is burried Okay, ferret it out. Does this

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread James
Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de writes: Does this accomplish what you want: sync;sync;sync;halt ? Do you believe that a method described for early ATT UNIX (early to mid 1970s) where halt did not yet exist is a valid idea for Linux? valid has no value here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:11 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So no, not part of regular system administraion. YES for a transient solution to an embedded hack. No argument that when you're troubleshooting powering off just getting the thing to power off by any means necessary is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi all, thank you very much for all the help you offered! :) It works now! Robert Nelson, who maintains the kernel for the Beagleboard Black gave me the hint to try the kernel version 3.18.rc7 (mainline), which receives a lot of upgrades concerning AT91 systems, which the Arietta G25 is one

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: - It works now! -- I am happy! --- Meino Fantastic! So now you are famous ! Now organize what you have learned and done and submit it to the gentoo embedded project, so they can include those critical details into the gentoo-embedded handbook under the boards

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-01 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems shutdown -h -H now) REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. What about halt? man halt What is the difference here? Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send some instructions to the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-01 Thread meino . cramer
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-12-01 19:12]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems shutdown -h -H now) REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. What about halt? man halt What is the difference here? Isn't it, that all shutdown

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-01 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems shutdown -h -H now) REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. What about halt? man halt The problem I think is burried Okay, ferret it out. Does this accomplish what you want: