Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

[Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com>]

On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>  I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is
>  almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your
>  kernel using the "SysRq" Key [1], which will allow you to reboot a
>  computer without corrupting the filesystem.
>
Nope, this didn't work on my panic-ed kernel. From my experience with
Gentoo, kernels can quite often hang and not respond to SysRq.
Liviu