[arch-general] Install problem

[Tom Gundersen]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> * What is the purpose of halt.target ? It stops the system
>   but leaves power on. AFAICS, it's not possible to restart
>   without a power cycle...

Under sysvinit halt and poweroff were the same. Under systemd 'halt'
halts the machine, whereas 'poweroff' first halts the machine and then
switches off the power.

I use 'halt' a lot to debug shutdown bugs, don't know if it has other uses.

Manually power cycling a halted machine is safe.

-t