Subject: Re: Instability problems
To: None <meltie@meltie.com>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/30/2003 22:32:00
> > If it matters: it's not a m76, it's m38. I must be missing something
> > obvious i guess .. it is "shutdown -r now" that makes your VAXen reboot
> > automagically, right ?
> 
> I noticed that on my 3100m10 with NetBSD 1.5.2 at least, "shutdown -h"
> seemed to reboot the machine, and "shutdown -r" would bring it down to the
> chevron prompt - the options seemed reversed but as we don't reboot
> machines very often I put it down to a quirk of a firmware setting and
> left it at that.
> 
> I think I reported it last year sometime.
> 
Hugh Graham fixed the console program flags chaos somewhere between
1.5 and 1.6, so it should work much better now. Unless the machine
has a weird setting from the beginning.

-- Ragge