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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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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

reboot

REBOOT(2)							System Calls Manual							 REBOOT(2)

NAME

       reboot - close down the system or reboot

SYNTAX

       #define _MINIX_SOURCE 1

       #include <unistd.h>

       int reboot(int how, ...)

DESCRIPTION

       Reboot() is used to close down the system.  It allows several ways of shutting down depending on how:

       reboot(RBT_HALT)
	    Halt the system and return to the monitor prompt.

       reboot(RBT_REBOOT)
	    Reboot the system by letting the monitor execute the "boot" command.

       reboot(RBT_PANIC)
	    Cause a system panic.  This is not normally done from user mode, but by servers using the sys_abort() kernel call.

       reboot(RBT_MONITOR, code, length)
	    Halt the system and let the monitor execute the given code of the given length.  (code is of type char * and length of type size_t.)

       reboot(RBT_RESET)
	    Reboot the system with a hardware reset.

       Reboot() may only be executed by the super-user.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If the call succeeds, it never returns.	If something went wrong, the return value is -1 and an error is indicated by errno.

SEE ALSO

       shutdown(8), reboot(8), halt(8), sync(1).

NOTES

       Minix  can not return to the monitor if running in real mode, or if started from MS-DOS.  This means that most of the reboot functions will
       change to a reset.

AUTHOR

       Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)

																	 REBOOT(2)