[ale] Rebooting remotely without a usable /

Björn Gustafsson bg-ale at bjorng.net
Mon Sep 21 11:32:48 EDT 2009


Try enabling sysrq with this:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Matt Rideout <mrideout at windserve.com> wrote:
> I have a server that's having issues with its / which prevent shutdown,
> reboot, init, etc from being accessible. This could be a hardware or
> firmware issue, so I'd like to reboot, and diagnose it remotely so that
> I'll know whether to order any hardware before going on-site.
>
> I can SSH in, and have an IP KVM hooked up, but have no remote power
> management. The SysRq trick isn't working through the KVM. It seems like
> there should be a way to reboot through /proc, but I'm drawing a blank.
> Any ideas?

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Björn Gustafsson



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