Re: forcing a reboot

[Andreas Unterkircher <unki@netshadow.at>]

if you really nead a reboot and you have sysrq (Magic Sysrq Key in the
Menu Kernel hacking) enabled, you can use 

    echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger 

to reboot - if your system is still alive then you can try the
combination

    ALT+"Print Screen"

to get the Sysrq-Menu in the console and then press the key as shown on
the oncoming menu.

more information you could find in the file sysrq.txt in the
documentation directory of the linux kernel sources.

hope this helps you.

andi


Am Freitag, den 22.10.2004, 13:45 +0300 schrieb Adrian C.: 
> You could try a killall -9 zombie_process_name before reboot. man
> reboot has no force reboot option that i can see.
> 
> --Adrian.
> 
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:29:23 +0300, urgrue <urgrue@tumsan.fi> wrote:
> > is there a way to force an instant reboot? in some cases "reboot"
> > doesnt work, as it seems to do many things before actually initiating a
> > phsyical reset, like shutting down processes. ive now run into the
> > situation a few times where zombie processes or module problems can
> > prevent "reboot" from completing its task.
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