How does one reboot from an ash shell?

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Urhixidur picture Urhixidur · May 7, 2012 · Viewed 35.8k times · Source

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?

Answer

NetVicious picture NetVicious · Oct 10, 2014

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.

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