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Magic SysRq Keys

Magic SysRq Keys

Posted Jun 20, 2012 7:31 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)
In reply to: Magic SysRq Keys by hummassa
Parent article: Brown: A Nasty md/raid bug

> I usually do ctrl-alt-f1, sysrq-6 (to see the messages), sysrq-s (wait for the all sync message to pop up) (...)

I saw a mnemonic for this sequence somewhere:
Raising Skinny Elephants Is [So] Utterly Boring

(The sysrq-s part I saw recommended after sysrq-r or after sysrq-i so, just for safety, I do it in both places ;) )


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