[kwlug-disc] Odd situation when booting from live image

[Paul Nijjar]

The Magic SysRq keys should work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

I have had to use 

Alt+SysRq+r - to free the keyboard
Alt+SysRq+b - to reboot

There are other invocations to do other things, but if I assert
confidently that these are the only two you need to know then I'm sure
some KWLUG members will correct me and offer other useful advice.

- Paul

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 05:28:42PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> I got a used, new to me, Lenovo laptop, and was copying the
> old laptop's disk to the new one by booting each from a live Xubuntu
> image, then copying over Ethernet, using nc and dd.
> 
> After the copying was complete, Firefox froze on the target machine.
> Then, I trying pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a terminal.
> I found endless errors scrolling, about squashfs, unable to read, etc.
> 
> When I tried to press Ctrl-C, and other combinations on Ctrl, Alt, ...etc,
> nothing worked. Even pressing the power button does not work.
> 
> Any other options here, aside fro letting the battery drain out, which may
> be
> after several hours?
> 
> --
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin

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