Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:48:12 +0100 (BST) | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Forcing an immediate reboot |
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > > Is there any way to force an immediate reboot as if to push the reset > > button in software? Got a remote server that i need to reboot and > > shutdown isn't working. > > If it has Oopsed, and the "reboot" command does not work, then all bets > are off - kernel memory has probably been corrupted. > > Get one of those powerstrips that you can telnet into and power cycle > things remotely.
If it has sysrq compiled in as root just do:
echo s > /proc/sysrq-trigger echo u > /proc/sysre-trigger echo s > /proc/sysrq-trigger echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
This will "sync", "umount/remount read-only", "sync", "immediate hardware reboot". Should always work...
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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