I crashed Linux

Michael Bilow mike at bilow.com
Thu Dec 7 03:59:33 EST 2000


There is an option to enable the "SysRq" key as a kind of backdoor to get
control of the system when things like this occur.  It is rarely needed
unless you are developing kernel mode code such as drivers or modules.

-- Mike


On 2000-12-07 at 02:34 -0500, Mark Dulcey wrote:

> I've had cases where the console goes completely dead (you can't
> see anything on the screen, and the keyboard won't work), but
> Linux STILL hasn't crashed - just the console code. Did you try
> using telnet to get into the box? (It hasn't happened to me for a
> long time, by the way.) 

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