Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2002-01-18 Thread Susan Macchia
Lee, Can you expand a little on what you mean by tell it to reboot and power down duing the bio bootup? Who or what do I tell ? The bios? TIA --- Susan Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What it means in SuSe 7.2 and Mandrake is that the box was shut down before the program had finished

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2002-01-16 Thread Ian Marchak
Susan Macchia wrote: Hi all, I recently switched from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.3. While happy overall, I have noticed some wierdness when shutting down or halting SuSE (either thru the kdm GUI or using /sbin/shutdown -h). SNIP And when I boot up or (reboot), my disk(s) always get fscked

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2002-01-16 Thread Lee
What it means in SuSe 7.2 and Mandrake is that the box was shut down before the program had finished shutting down. It may be that 7.3 has a bug in it that stops program shut down before it has finished and the first thing it does at reboot is to check the file sysytem to insure that none of the

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-23 Thread Chang
/boot is not a problem. I don't keeping it a extfs2. It's not used after booting and init. main concerns are /etc. So many hours of work were there... I don't know what you mean easy to manage. I don't do anything differently for jfs (reiserfs, for example) than I do with any other file

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-22 Thread Chang [linuxism]
I had similar experiecens with my last linux install. After 2-3 cold boots, the file system has serious integrity problem. maybe I should convert the mount point / to a jfs... But then, are j-partitions easy to manage? I can't tell you what's wrong, but I would suggest you make plans to get

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:43:39 +0800 Chang [linuxism] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar experiecens with my last linux install. After 2-3 cold boots, the file system has serious integrity problem. maybe I should convert the mount point / to a jfs... But then, are j-partitions easy to

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-22 Thread Lee
Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:45:53 -0800 (PST) Susan Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recently switched from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.3. While happy overall, I have noticed some wierdness when shutting down or halting SuSE (either thru the kdm GUI or using

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-22 Thread Susan Macchia
Ok - not to sound like to much of a nucklehead, but how do I find out about this kind of fs? Is it easy to transition to? Are there SxS for them? I have seen references to these things in this list, but haven't really paid attention, so please forgive my ignorance here. TIA Collins Richey

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-22 Thread Tony Ogden
There is ext3 info in this HOWTO with a section on moving to ext3 from ext2: http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/index.html Susan Macchia wrote: Ok - not to sound like to much of a nucklehead, but how do I find out about this kind of fs? Is it easy to transition to? Are there SxS

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Susan Macchia wrote: Ok - not to sound like to much of a nucklehead, but how do I find out about this kind of fs? Is it easy to transition to? Are there SxS for them? I have seen references to these things in this list, but haven't really paid attention, so please forgive my ignorance

Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2001-11-21 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:45:53 -0800 (PST) Susan Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recently switched from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.3. While happy overall, I have noticed some wierdness when shutting down or halting SuSE (either thru the kdm GUI or using /sbin/shutdown -h). It seems to