powerdown restarts

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 07/02/2012 12:04:02 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Joe Zeff <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.

Most systems (or so I'm informed) have a "boot up" button that when 
pressed starts the boot process. That's in addition to the power 
switch. Some (mine included) don't have a "boot up" button, so its 
necessary to cycle the power. Not nice, but what can you do? :-)