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Magic SysRQ: REISUB

August 31st, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Ok, so your box is completely locked up, nothing you do with the keyboard and mouse does anything with the OS. You’re about to hold in the power button for a forced reset..

WAIT!



Try the Magic SysRq key. All the Slackware default kernel have it compiled-in.

It’s not easy finger-wise, but hold down Alt and the SysRq key and while doing so, type in the following in order:

R E I S U B


Fingers crossed you just rebooted your machine without breaking it.

For more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

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