Screen blacks out midway during boot

[Holt]

The more graceful way to shutdown is listed on top of our Support FAQ 
entry here:

    From the Home View 
<http://www.laptop.org/laptop/start/homeview.shtml>, move the pointer 
over the XO symbol at the center of your screen, and press "Shutdown."

    Or depress the power button briefly until the green power light goes 
off.

    
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#How_do_I_power_off_the_XO_laptop.3F

Thanks,
OLPC Support (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support)

jwjarvis wrote:
> I have just discovered that the screen will not black out during boot, and all 24 white dots will form a complete circle, if the system is powered off gracefully, by going to Terminal and entering "poweroff".  If the physical power switch is simply pressed to shut the machine down, the next boot results in CRC node error messages.  
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> WHAT IS THE EASIEST, CORRECT WAY TO POWER OFF?  This should be more intuitive.  To ask a child who speaks Spanish to enter a long English word like "poweroff" is really asking a lot.  Jonathan Jarvis
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