Powering On and Off
Turning Off the System
Turning Off the SystemThis section provides
Model 743.
CAUTION: If you have a local disk attached to the Model 743, do not turn off power to the system without first shutting down the operating system software according to the following procedure. Turning off the power for your system without first doing the shutdown procedure may result in damage to data on your disk. Always execute the
1Exit all processes currently running.
2Enter the following command at the shell prompt:
rebootThis gives a
3After completing several shutdown procedures, the system eventually dis- plays one of the following messages:
Halted, you may now cycle power.
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Halting (in tight loop)
4At this time the system no longer responds to keyboard input and you may turn off the power. Turning the system back on initiates the boot sequence (see Appendix A of this book).
If you want to shutdown and reboot an
See the