On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Others allow to kill processes, sync the filesystem, and such. The >> combination Alt-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B reboots a hanging PC without file >> system corruption. > > Usually! Sometimes a system can be locked up to badly that there's not > enough resources left to sync the filesystems. Most of the time though > Alt-SysRq-Reboot-Even-If-System-Utterly-Broken works. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
I've seen you guys talk about this and I've never had to use it. I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it Alt-SysRq and then REISUB or Alt-SysRq followed by Atl-R, Atl-E, etc.. ? I assume the first but it would be nice to know if I ever have to use it. Thanks, Mark
