reboot is shutting down hard drives

[Gene C.]

On Friday 14 May 2004 00:41, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 13, 2004, Kenneth Benson <sdhmis at sheratondover.com> wrote:
> > I believe its doing that to cause the hard drives to flush the on-drive
> > write buffers.
>
> Yup.  And it's in bugzilla because some boxes won't reboot after disks
> were powered off.  Broken BIOS :-(

Can you provide the bugzilla report number?

BTW, is there some kernel parameter we can specify to suppress this?
-- 
Gene