On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> hmmm interesting discussion. but, the three finger salute was place there
> for a very good reason. in case of blasted emergencies, you will always
> have the means to restart a system gone hairy. many times have i
> experience errors most of them hardware related that the console freezes
> and network connections are dropped. the three finger salute is still
> the best way of recovering from such failures.
if you've enabled SysRQ (CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ) at compile, you can use
various Alt-SysRq-<key> combos to do a plethora of tasks so long as the
kernel hasn't died. there's documentation for it in the kernel
Documentation subdirectory.
-xen
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