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To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.0-950928-SNAP now available for testing 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:13:45 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 05:29:46 +0100
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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Brian Tao stands accused of writing in message ID
<Pine.BSI.3.91.951004001144.2435C-100000@trepan.io.org>:
>On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Brian Tao wrote:
>    Oops, one really minor sticky point... when I go to reboot the
>system after the installation, I get the "Syncing disks message", but
>nothing else.  I can't flip around to the other virtual consoles to
>check for misplaced messages, nor does a Ctrl-Alt-Del work.  Had to
>hit the hardware reset.  This is on a (AFAIK) pretty standard ASUS
>SP3G motherboard with an Intel 486DX2/66 CPU and 64 megs of RAM.
>Nothing to get excited over, but I thought I'd mention it.

This is a known problem. For some reason, the ``Syncing disks...''
message goes on one VTY, and the ``Press any key to reset'' messages
goes on another. It drove Jordan nuts during the 2.0.5 release
process, and he obviously hasn't found a fix yet (if a fix is
possible).

I'm slightly surprised your attempts to switch VTY's didn't trigger a
reboot. Perhaps the <ALT>-<FN> combos are still trapped and ignored as
being keypresses? Certainly, pressing the space bar works (or used to).

Gary