[Gllug] Interrupt from power button?

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 19 Sep, John Winters wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 09:31, Chris Bell wrote:
> >    There are some minimal systems such as routers which will boot from a
> > floppy, so would it be possible to put enough on a protected floppy to run
> > an old box as a simple print server, perhaps with an ancient hard drive to
> > provide some swap space? The power switch could then be used as designed.
> 
> Not quite - you'd have to hold the power button down for 5 seconds or so
> to force the box to switch off if the kernel doesn't react to the
> initial press.
> 
> I'm not worried about data corruption - the box will probably be
> diskless anyway, and booting over the LAN.  I just want it to react and
> shut down when the power button is pressed.
> 
> John
> 
   That is only a problem with a newer ATX power supply, an old box with an
AT power supply would just stop.

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Chris Bell

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