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- From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del in linux, doesn't work.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.042616.10253@colorado.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 04:26:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul31.010857.9293@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul31.010857.9293@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes:
- >
- >Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't reboot my system. It disables the keyboard and
- >locks everything up. I am running 0.96c patch level 2, and have AMI
- >BIOS., 386DX-33, Adaptec AHA-1542B,...
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Scott Mace
-
- This is a known problem with some systems. Disabling paging,
- kicking it back to real mode, and far jumping to 0xf000:0xffff0
- might work.
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