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List:       busybox
Subject:    [BusyBox] poweroff without init not possible?
From:       Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch () sk-tech ! net>
Date:       2003-09-22 17:41:11
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> for an embedded system (vdr) I don't need a real init.
>
> I built a testing environiment in which '/bin/init' is only a shell
> script, which loads some drivers and starts the main application.
>
> busybox 1.00-pre3 was configured without init, but with poweroff, halt
> and reboot. But the last three commands doesn't work without init.
>
> Does someone has a solution?

Kompile ACPI in your embedded kernel and use ACPI to reboot/halt/poweroff
... but you need to umount the filesystems and stop the processes
yourself.

And depending on your Hardware ACPI might not work at all.

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