Powering Down The System - HP 9000 700 Series Owner's Manual

Powering Down the System

If you have a local disk connected to the Model V743 VXI
Caution
controller, do not turn o power to the system without rst
shutting down the controller's operating system software
according to the following procedure. Turning o the power
for your system without rst doing the shutdown procedure
may result in damage to data on your disk. Always execute the
shutdown process to completion rst.
1. Exit all processes currently running.
2. Execute the
shutdown
the system to a halted state.
You can do this either from the command line, with SAM, or by using the
HP VUE Toolbox. The following procedure uses the conventional HP-UX
command.
Using the Shutdown Command to Stop Your System
1. As , exit your applications and, at a shell prompt, type the following
root
command:
cd /
4 Enter 5
shutdown -h 0
This gives a zero-length \grace period" before the system goes down to the
halted state.
2. You will see a message:
Halted, you may now cycle power.
3. At this time the system no longer responds to keyboard input and you may
turn o the power. Turning the system back on again will initiate the boot
sequence (see Appendix B).
If you want to shut down and reboot automatically instead of using the above
procedure, simply enter the
shutdown (1M) for various other options.
See
command as described in the next section to bring
4 Enter 5
command with
shutdown
no options.
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