Subject: Re: Why halt does reboot?
From: Jean-Paul Blaquiere (japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 23:36:01 PDT
> On May 16, Lease, Mike illuminated with a virtual pen :
> You probably have the "AUTO_ACTION" environment variable in SRM
> set to "BOOT" instead of "HALT". Try halting the machine, then
> as the SRM prompt is about to come up (but before it actually
>
I'd be surprised if this does fix the problem. Th auto_action var (in my
expereince) only has an effect when the machine is coming up, rather than
shutting down.
The alphas I've played with have auto_action set to boot, and they all halt
to SRM okay.
/jp...
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