B. James Phillippe (bryan@terran.org)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:37:06 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Larry Snyder wrote:
> Check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes. After the minimum versions
> section there's a note about the effect of ctl-alt-del.
Actually, I did read that from the Changes file. But it sounded so
overwhelmingly x86 that it never occured to me to try it for Alpha. Here
is the text:
...
<CTRL><ALT><DEL> now performs a cold reboot instead of a warm reboot
for increased hardware compatibility. If you want a warm reboot and
know it works on your hardware, add a "reboot=warm" command line option
in LILO. A small number of machines need "reboot=bios" to reboot via
the BIOS.
...
The mention of LILO and BIOS led me to instantly dismiss it as a change
which didn't apply to me. I'll give it a try with SRM tonight and see what
happens.
Another point that someone on this list brought up was glibc-2.1. IIRC the
possibility was mentioned that breaking the reboot(2) syscall in glibc
might have prevented init from telling the kernel to inform of of
ctr-alt-del and let it do the work.
thanks,
-bp
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