[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#465975: disk on reboot, man, ACPI

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

OK, tried

42c42,43
< 	hddown="-h"
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> #	hddown="-h"
> 	hddown="" #jidanni says otherwise spins down disk upon reboot(8)

(Actually could just write hddown= )

with both kernels 2.6.22-3-686, 2.6.24-1-686. No help. If you listen
very closely ... perhaps it's winter where you are and you can let the
freezing breezes allow your fan to turn off on your laptop so you can
hear it (a cold snap here in Taiwan allowed me to discover it thus),
you will notice the tiny whine your disk makes takes a dip, then
starts up again during the brief second or two the reboot(8) command
makes. (Perhaps boot single-user mode if testing this over and over.)

Not sure if related,  but here's
$ cat /etc/default/halt
# Default behaviour of shutdown -h / halt. Set to "halt" or "poweroff".
HALT=poweroff

Maybe this is all tangled up in ACPI. I'll send hmh at debian.org my
dmesg log.

P.S. man reboot perhaps should be changed from:

       If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel
       0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown
       will be invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info
       see the shutdown(8) manpage.

with two subtle changes, to:

       If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel
       0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, or with the
       -f flag mentioned below, shutdown will be invoked instead (with
       its -h or -r flag). For more info see the shutdown(8) manpage.

but I'm just guessing.