On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:02:14AM -0600, Mullins, Ron wrote: > Please guys. How do YOU reboot, those of you who haft to. There has to be an > easy way to let a DSU home user reboot while in transition. I don't want to > hear, "I couldn't get anything done. You had the computer in Linux and I > don't know how to restart it. Can't you just let me run Windows?"
To make life easy, I suggest to alter in /etc/inittab the line that tells what to do on Ctrl-Ald-Delete: replace -r with -h and the machine will halt on Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Now tell everybody to do: step one : Goto a non-grafical screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1, step two : Stop the machine with Ctrl-Alt-Delete, step three : Wait for a line like "system halted" (check this), step four : Turn the computer off or reboot with another Ctrl-Alt-delete. Proven to be foolproof here; my wive makes no mistakes, my parents can cope with it, and even the six year old youngest never made a mistake. PS: be sure to check the line "system halted", there seem to be kernels around that say something else. -- groetjes, carel
