If the machine has APM you could use 'halt -p'?
	(Just a random thought :)

		David/absolute
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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Brook Milligan wrote:

> I want to run a machine without a keyboard.  Apparently the only way
> to do this is to disable the keyboard test in the BIOS and compile a
> kernel with no keyboard support.
> 
> When I try to halt the machine, however, it actually reboots instead.
> Presumably, this is because in the absence of a keyboard control falls
> through the console poll/get sequence (rather than waiting for input)
> which is taken from src/sys/arch/i386/i386/machdep.c (presumably
> similar fragments exist for other archs):
> 
> 	if (howto & RB_HALT) {
> 		printf("\n");
> 		printf("The operating system has halted.\n");
> 		printf("Please press any key to reboot.\n\n");
> 		cnpollc(1);	/* for proper keyboard command handling */
> 		cngetc();
> 		cnpollc(0);
> 	}
> 
> 	printf("rebooting...\n");
> 
> How could this be changed so that the machine will really halt under
> these conditions?  Or is this an ill-conceived case?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brook
>