Hello James, > > > hold down Alt and SysReq/PrtScr and press S, U and B in turn to > > > reboot (reasonably) cleanly > > Interesting idea however this laptop does not have this key > "SysReq/PrtScr".
As Boyd said, it may be hidden (in which case it is very well hidden on this iBook, I haven't found it yet :( However, I've never seen an x86 system that doesn't have one somewhere. > > so everything is killed, and nothing trying to write to disk, when > > unmounting them. > Hmm, I do not think you understand, when I exit X/kde the entire system > is latched up tight. None of the keys work, nothing is echoed to the > screen, the system is latched up tight. Magic SysReq works at the kernel level, so it usually works even when the system appears completely locked up. -- Neil Bothwick Zmodem has bigger bits, softer blocks, and tighter ASCII
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