Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Mark Weaver]

Sarang!

...I'm speechless!      Thankyou. I'll be chewing on this for a while.

-- 
Mark
  
  ** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
        
        

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote:

> Mark Weaver wrote:
> > 
> > Ok...I'm still a little foggy on this console stuff. I'm only half
> > there. So, if my desktop freezes as it has once or twice since I've
> > started working with Linux,(about 14 months), and CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE
> > doesn't take me out of X, then will CTL-ALT-Fx (x = 1-6) get me there
> > without having to do a hardboot and risk filesystem damage?
> 
> depends on how bad the state of kernel is.. sometimes the only solution is
> hard-boot.
> 
> Here are some more key strokes :
> 
> Alt-SysReq-r      get the kbd in raw mode.. try this if Ctrl-Alt-BS dosn't
> work
>           -s      tries to save any unsaved data to disk
>           -e      terminates all processes
>           -i      kills all processes
>           -u      unmounts all filesystems
>           -b      reboots the machine
> 
> The mandrake document says that u're supposed to do this in the given
> sequence.
> 
> >No matter how long I use Linux not a day goes by that I don't learn
> >something new.
> 
> now you got another day's worth :)
> 
> -sarang
> 
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