Quoting <3946287D.9B163414 at ireland.sun.com>
by Kieran Colfer - Sun Microsystems Ireland <kieran.colfer at ireland.sun.com>:
> how do you get a machine to actually shut down when you choose
> "shutdown"? I have a laptop here which I am instaling, and rather than
> just getting to the "system halted" and then just doing nothing, I want
> the thing to actually power off.
There's a -p option to halt, that should do this, but doesn't, on my
machine, although W98 can power it off just fine.
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