From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 12:27:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4F716A4CF for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:27:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from memphis.mephi.ru (memphis.mephi.ru [194.67.67.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7849943D39 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timon@memphis.mephi.ru) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (ppp8-181.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [81.195.8.181]) (authenticated bits=0) by memphis.mephi.ru (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1OKRRxx047304 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:27:28 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from timon@memphis.mephi.ru) From: Artem Ignatiev To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <1077567094.772.21.camel@timon.nist> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-Id: <1077654447.1751.5.camel@timon.nist> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:27:27 +0300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Creating a ``Magic Button'' X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:27:32 -0000 On Tue, 24.02.2004, at 14:40, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Artem Ignatiev writes: > > I thought that this will be useful feature - when system is almost dead, > > but syscons's still alive (and you have no debugger in kernel) try to > > minimize loss of data trying to sync your disks, and doing halt. > > Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console will do what you want. I'd better do Ctrl-S before kldloading buggy.ko then Ctrl-Alt-Del (;