On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:33 PM, John Klos wrote:

>> Secondly, whenever I execute the halt or shutdown -h now commands, I 
>> notice that NetBSD shuts down by exiting to open firmware again 
>> instead of an actual powering down.  Also, I can't get open firmware 
>> itself to shut down (the shut-down command, I believe).  Instead I 
>> just lose the serial connection. What I do basically is just hit the 
>> power button and turn the machine off. Still, if there is a way to 
>> avoid this, I'd appreciate any help.
>
> If you'd like to reboot, just shutdown -r, and if you'd like to 
> poweroff, use shutdown -p. -h halts, and -p powers down the system.
>
> John Klos

Aha!  I misunderstood the command options for shutdown!  I thought -h 
would be responsible for powering down, for some reason.  Looks like I 
have to pay more attention to the man pages then :)  Thank you!

Erik