Re: when must I reboot?

[Aaron Solochek <leko@cmu.edu>]

USB should be fine, it was designed so that you could just plug something into it and
be ready to go..... However you are not supposed to mess with ps/2 while the computer
is on... That really doesn't stop me, sometimes nothing happens, sometimes the
machine reboots...

-Aaron Solochek
 leko@cmu.edu


William T Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> > I'm a little curious as to under exactly what circumstances a reboot
> > is actually necessary.  I know a reboot is necessary to load a new
>
> Internal hardware and kernel changes.
>
> > difficulty.  I've heard that if you shut down gpm and X and any other
> > rodent-listening programs you can also change the mouse without any
> > problems.  I'm guessing there's a way to do this with the keyboard or
> > the monitor, if maybe you could remotely shut down the console or
>
> You can do this with anything that plugs into the back, except SCSI, I
> think (and that would probably work too if you unloaded the driver for
> your SCSI card first).  I have my mouse, monitor, and keyboard on a switch
> box so they can control two computers.  As a result they're only plugged
> in to one computer at a time.  Works fine.  You don't need to reboot or in
> fact do anything special at all to change ethernet and/or telephone
> cables.  Multimedia cables likewise.  I don't know about USB, but it
> probably works too.  Most stuff is pretty flexible about this sort of
> thing.
>
> > something.  I think you can do an "init 1" to get into single-user and
> > do single-user things without losing uptime, even repartition a disk
>
> Right.  Repartitioning a disk is tricky.  It's not really safe to
> repartition your boot disk without rebooting.  Others are fine.  The boot
> disk is fine most of the time too, given that you don't change your root
> partition.
>
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