Rebooting Sys V/386

[Heiko Blume]

jgd at Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) writes:

>src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

>>>Is there a way to force a sys V/386 3.2 system to reboot?

>>'init 6' will shutdown the system cleanly and reboot *without*
>>waiting for a keypress. of course the floppy drive must be
>>open/empty.

>I've found that on more systems than not, this does not work and
>instead hangs the computer when it prepares to reboot after shuting down.

if it's pretends to be a System V/386 Release 3.2 (which the original
poser has asked for) it better should.
AT&T Sys Admin Reference Manual, init(1M):

[init] 6  Stop the unix system and reboot to the state defined
          by the 'initdefault' entry in /etc/inittab.

that's as clear as it can be.
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