Am 03. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte elemint@cox.net so:

> With keymap isn't it possible to reboot or shutdown a server when nothing=
 else works. What wuold the sequence of keys be?

Don't know about that. debian uses init.

# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now

Thet's from /etc/inittab.

> When I initially tried to reboot the server I got "Kernel Bug 11_rw_blk.c=
:936 invalid operand 0000 EFLAGS:00010246"
>
> When the server was trying to reboot it was having a difficult umounting =
a optical magnato udf drive not sure if that is what caused it.

That drive will be using the SCSI layer. SCSI timeouts are hours long.
SCSI's awesome, except when it doesn't work :).

ciao,

der.hans
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