powerdown restarts

[Bill Davidsen]

Richard Vickery wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us <mailto:joe at zeff.us>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/02/2012 11:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>         I have several systems which either reboot or drop to some zombie mode
>         on shutdown from the WM (GNOME3, XFCE, Cinnamon) and on all of them
>         "shutdowen -h" doesn't power off (as the man page says is optional)
>         while "shutdown -P" does.
>
>
>     That's not too unreasonable.  I'd take -h to mean halt, and -P as Power Off.
>
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> How do we boot up after "halt" or "sleep"? I quit using these commands years ago
> for lack of knowledge about booting back up. The man pages never gave me what I
> needed to know, and now that it has been brought up, I thought that I would ask
> and get my curiosity satisfied.
>
Usually a single push of the power button if pressing ENTER doesn't. It is, 
unfortunately, BIOS dependent behavior, and can't be blamed on Linux in any way.


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