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From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net>
To: "'Russell King'" <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "'Bernd Eckenfels'" <ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de>,
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Subject: Re: Init single and Serial console : How to ?
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 08:28:29 +0200
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Hello,
> 
> Yes, since you exited the process which was pretending to be the init
> program.  Basically, whatever program is pretending to be init must
> never exit or be killed off - it's special.
> 
> You probably wanted to do /sbin/reboot -f
> 

Should have turn my tongue in my mouth, and removes my gloves before
touching the keyboard :)

Yes, that's exactly what was happening, and reboot -f is the way to
restart correctly the machine.

Thanks for fixing me, 
Regards,
Paul