On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Andrea Celli wrote:
> In the next days I had a trouble with my Linux-Mndk-6.0.
> I done something wrong (may be installing vmware).
> As result, when I tried to mount cdrom, keyboard and mouse
> freeze completely and suddenly. I was no able to switch
> console (cntl-alt-Fn), stop process (cntl-C, cntl-D, cntl-z,...),
> reboot via cntl-Alt-Del, ...
> I waited some hours then I had to switch off the power.
>
> What can I do in such a situation?
> Is it possible to configure something in order to allow the
> "reset button" of PC to reboot safely the system?
> In /etc/inittab the sequence cntl-Alt-Del is mapped in a
> similar way ...
>
> bye, Andrea
>
in PCs, the Reset Button is a hardware switch. It is connected to your
MOBO. Its a hardware setting, like temporaily disconnecting power to the
system [I donnu how it works exactly but that's an rough approximation].
Not a software one. The 3-Fingered Salute [CTR-ALT-DEL] combination is a
software reset. The OS [Win9x/NT/OS2/LINUX/BSD] reads it and does the
appopiate action. Although is is theortically possible to use the RESET
button as a shutdown, it would require A] a homemade adapter or B]
Solidering on the MOBO. Personally, those aren't good choices. I pretty
much recommend in your case a Clean install of LINUX.
