linux-kernel - Re: Sysrq+B doesn't work on my box

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Message-Id: <200808011356.19027.alistair@devzero.co.uk>
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:56:18 +0100
From:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
To:	"Zdenek Kabelac" <zdenek.kabelac@...il.com>
Cc:	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <hmh@....eng.br>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sysrq+B doesn't work on my box

On Friday 01 August 2008 10:54:19 Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>:
> > Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> >> SysRQ+B  doesn't work with right AltGr on my keyboard - but it does
> >> work with the left Alt which I'm not normally using (It's somewhat
> >> easier to use the right one)
> >> Any idea why AltGR+SysRQ+b does not work on T61 ?
> >
> > You can type them separately: AltGr+SysRq, AltGr+b (holding AltGr across
> > the sequence).
>
> Ok this sequence does work - so one mystery solved :)
>
> now the remaining part is.
>
>
> I'll probably try to bisect  rc.sysinit script to check what is the
> first command
> that breaks the reboot  - but if there is any idea what should I test
> first.?

Are you using modules? Maybe a driver is loaded and this upsets the BIOS 
somehow? If that was the case, the driver wouldn't be loaded in an 
init=/bin/sh situation, as you described before.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.
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