SMALL ERROR in the new Quick Start Guide

[ChristopheDupriez]

In the new and nice Quick Start Guide, a little omission in Step 5 d) :
after doing expand_rootfs, one must select <Finish> and confirm <yes> to reboot.
Hope this helps!

[dervturbo]

I got caught out by this as well.. I didn't see the finish option to be honest and cut the power supply.. as I could not seem to use the shutdown command. This just brought me back to the raspi-config.

I re-imaged just to be safe.. ran expand_rootfs then manually tabbed to the Finish option and this rebooted correctly and I was then asked to login as expected.

The message that you say yes to simply says the operation will be completed after the next reboot rather than actually initiating the reboot.

(I'm sure it is just a test to see if you can cope with working some stuff out )

P.S the guide was great for getting me started!

[Raspiberry]

If you want to shutdown correctly:

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sudo shutdown -h now

If you want to reboot correctly:

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sudo shutdown -r now

Note that both of these should be entered in the Terminal/Console. If you are in the X Window System (or LXDE, whatever you'd like to call it) log out and then enter these commands.

[mahjongg]

here is more starters information to be found: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... =26&t=4751

and also here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Noob_Guide_to_the_Pi_image

[dervturbo]

Thanks guys I was able to find the shutdown commands in the end..
I initially did just a sudo shutdown -t 00 now but that didn't seem to do the trick and then I found a post mentioning the command you mention and it did the trick.

Thanks for the links.. I will try a few beginner projects over the next few days.

[ChristopheDupriez]

If you want to shutdown correctly...

Please read again my original post at the top: there is a NEEDED correction in the Quick Start Guide!!! http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide and it is still not made (who I should wrote for that?)

[SimonSmall]

Just in case a total novice reads this thread, and is using the Raspian Linux image...

A simpler way to shutdown or reboot from the command line is "sudo halt" or "sudo reboot"

If you use raspi-config (or manually change the settings) to boot into the graphical window screens, the shutdown / reboot options are available when you logout; it is not obvious how to get back to the command line. See http://elinux.org/RPi_raspi-config#boot ... on_boot.3F

If you boot to the command line, then use startx, the logout from the graphical window returns to the command line

(sorry, the shutdown / reboot bit seems to have hijacked this thread)