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Can't shutdown or reboot (beeps)
Name: Prognathous Date: December 6, 2002 at 05:55:36 Pacific OS: BeOS 5.03 Pro CPU/Ram: P3-500 + 256MB
Comment:
Another poster (Jez) asked a similar question a few months ago. In both cases the symptoms are the same: the computer freezes with one long beep follows by two short ones. BTW, it doesn't happen in safe-mode.
Name: jefro Date: December 7, 2002 at 16:57:52 Pacific
Reply:
Choose any or a few of the safemode options. If you find only one that cures it then there is a script file I think called kernel.sample (something like that) to make boot options permanant. See betips.net for the exact file and usage.
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