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Urhixidur
Urhixidur

Reputation: 2310

How does one reboot from an ash shell?

How does one reboot from an ash shell?

I have an Ubuntu system that is currently bricked for some reason (not pertinent for this question), which means I boot into a BusyBox ash shell. But the exit command does squat, and reset is irrelevant. There must be a better way to reboot than the power button, right?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 55444

Answers (5)

NetVicious
NetVicious

Reputation: 4045

I was looking for the same, and my BusyBox installation doesn't have shutdown, restart or reboot commands.

I used poweroff -f because poweroff with no parameters doesn't do anything.

If the previous command doesn't work, try to do a ls -la /bin or a ls -la /sbin to see which commands are available on your BusyBox installation.

As user6214440 stated, if your installation doesn't has a good path environment you should need to execute the command with full path like /sbin/reboot or /sbin/poweroff

Upvotes: 39

Allan Marks
Allan Marks

Reputation: 1

I have a similar "Busy Box" problem but it usually only happens when rebooting after a windows session (which I need for my DAW) I know it's 99% going to busy box so instead of a normal boot I boot to a live USB such as MXlinux 19.x and from there run Gparted it's in the menu under Administration (you need to authorise it with a password and for the live USB I think it's either "root" or "demo".

After it does its thing I look for the partition with Linux on it and invariably it has a triangle with an exclamation mark in it, that the one to check, Right Click it, choose "check" then Click the Tick mark at the top of the window/screen, answer yes to apply and wait for it to check the file system of your partition.

When finished either open a terminal and type reboot or do it however you normally reboot. That's how I fix the problem every time.

Upvotes: 0

Bostrot
Bostrot

Reputation: 6033

tested on BusyBox v1.18.4 (2011-03-18 03:57:01 EDT) multi-call binary

Some BusyBox versions also restart with a forced reboot command:

reboot -f

reboot --help

for more information.

Upvotes: 6

dnbpanda
dnbpanda

Reputation: 31

On my Alpine box running an ash shell, the command for shutting down completely is poweroff. I noticed it does the same thing as the more familiar shutdown -h now I usually deal with on my CentOS box.

Upvotes: 3

falcojr
falcojr

Reputation: 1444

Do you not have the reboot or shutdown commands? reboot without arguments should reboot your box, or 'shutdown -r now' should also do it.

Upvotes: 3

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