[ltp] Filesystem choice?

[Tod Harter]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 10:46 am, Richard wrote:
> One observation I made on the failure - if it's not going to come back, I
> don't hear the HDD; also I can use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to text mode, and
> then type "root", <enter> but I never get the password prompt.

I honestly haven't noticed if the hdd is still spun down or not, but I have 
total keyboard lockout, the only thing that works at all is the power switch, 
and once in a while I've had to pull the battery to get it to come back up. I 
don't even think alt-sysreq works...
>
> (It feels like issuing commands to a shell which is still waiting for a
> subshell to exit, ie keyboard is echoed to screen, but it doesn't "do"
> anything).
>
> Richard