phunni Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 I'm in the process of re-installing linux after replacing a dying hard drive. I've got as far as copying my old data into the new home partition and everything has hung... I used to think this happened because of my ATI card - but I've not even started X yet - I'm doing all this in mc My initial instinct is to hit the reset button - but I reckon this may be what killed my old drive and I remember in the old board docs that Tom wrote about a way to cleanly reboot with a key sequence - but I can't find it. Does anyone know where the docs are or how to force my machione to cleanly reboot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Left Control -alt R, S, E, U, B Raising Skinny Elephants is Uterly Boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 :( didn't work - assuming I'm doing it right. first three at the same time and the rest one after the other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 alt+sysrq+ R, S, E, I, U, B the topic name is "the magic sysrq key" or something in the tips and tricks section. R - keyboard to "raw mode" S - emergency sync E - terminate all tasks I - kill all tasks U - remount filesystems as read-only B - reboot And yes I use "raising skinny elephants is uttlerly boring" as the way to remember it :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 nope - still doesn't work. I guess it's either disabled in my kernel (where would the option for that be in the config?) or my machine is too badly crashed. I'm guessign the former simply because I can still switch between virtual consoles - not that any other keys work to actually let me log into them mind you... Gonna have to hit the power switch... :sad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 restarted the machine. So where can I find the kernel config option to enable the sys rq thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 the last kernel i compiled before now (2.6.8) was 2.6.5 and it had the option in "general setup", but now I cant find the option in 2.6.8...:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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