dmedhora@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
> I would like to reboot/halt my system when I press the reset
> button ( beside the power button) on my computer.
>
> the other day my system went wild. I was trying to use a dvdram
> disc as a share in samba. While copying files to it, the keyboard
> suddenly
> stopped responding and the console displayed tons of messages
> real fast.
>
> I pressed the reset button as thats all I could do, and it reset power
> but I would like it to reboot. Is there an option in inittab for this?
> Something like the entry for ca:ctrlaltdel ? So that in case I
> cannot salute I can alteast reset the computer and be assured
> that the shutdown is gracefull ?
>
Your reset button should do just that: make the machine stop whatever it is
doing and do the BIOS stuff, the last step of which is to reboot your
machine. The reset button should not reset the power, but just the machine's
hardware registers and start the BIOS. If it diddled the power, either you
hit the wrong button, or something else is wrong. Perhaps a BIOS setting can
make the reset button do something else, but I do not know of one like that.

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