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Crash-only Linux?

Crash-only Linux?

Posted Jan 30, 2010 18:03 UTC (Sat) by SimonKagstrom (subscriber, #49801)
In reply to: Crash-only Linux? by filipjoelsson
Parent article: A module for crashing the kernel

Only if you weren't saving something to the tape!

Anyway, you can use halt -f to achieve the same thing you a Linux computer. You can probably also bind it to the ACPI event when the power button is pressed to get the desired behavior. The less brave among us would do a sync first :-)


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