emergency shutdown?
My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it
this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two
and everything was working really slowly.... It's now just ceased up
completely. The text has disappeared off my xterm and I can't get any
movement out of the mouse. I don't see how I can do anything but just
turn the power off, leave it for a few hours to cool down then reboot.
Ouch I don't like that idea. The problem is, I was in the process of
upgrading my kernel - all I've got left to do is alter my /etc/lilo.conf
file, run lilo, and shutdown. Because I hadn't altered the config file
will it just reboot anyway, using the old kernel? What worries me is
that in the process of installing the kernel, apt-get set up / applied
(whatever the right terminology is!) a boot block. Is this going to
prevent the thing from rebooting? And if so, so I don't reach the boot
message that allows me to pick the Debian or Windows OS', is there
anything I can do?
TIA,
Simon.
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S.R.Tod@damtp.cam.ac.uk
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