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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need Help to Reboot to Mac OS X Post 302118250 by philomaximus on Monday 21st of May 2007 12:00:47 AM

05-21-2007

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Originally Posted by porter

1. So shutdown works and a restart takes you back to a console?

2. Does this take you to a login prompt or straight in with the command prompt?

3. try ps ax

4. To get your files off I suggest you package them up as a tar file and ftp them to another box eg...

cd $HOME
tar cf /tmp/my.tar *
cd /tmp
ftp another-host
binary
put my.tar

5. then install the OS from scratch, in your case borrow a DVD drive from another machine.

Shutdown worked. Reboot was simply rebooting back to the unix prompt. I installed the OS from scratch and that seems to have worked. I still have no idea how I got into Unix to start with and why I couldn't get it back to OS X. But I'm just glad it's back. I've learned a little about Unix though Smilie

Thanks for all the help!

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halt

HALT(8) 							       halt								   HALT(8)

NAME

       halt, poweroff, reboot - Halt, power-off or reboot the machine

SYNOPSIS

       halt [OPTIONS...]

       poweroff [OPTIONS...]

       reboot [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

       halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       --help
	   Prints a short help text and exits.

       --halt
	   Halt the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.

       -p, --poweroff
	   Power-off the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.

       --reboot
	   Reboot the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.

       -f, --force
	   Force immediate halt, power-off, reboot. Do not contact the init system.

       -w, --wtmp-only
	   Only write wtmp shutdown entry, do not actually halt, power-off, reboot.

       -d, --no-wtmp
	   Do not write wtmp shutdown entry.

       --no-wall
	   Do not send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot.

EXIT STATUS

       On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

NOTES

       These are legacy commands available for compatibility only.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemctl(1), shutdown(8), wall(1)

systemd 208																   HALT(8)