In message <200112250212.fBP2CcY11979@edge.sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>, Takahiro Ka
mbe writes:
>> break, if you have a serial console, or ctl-alt-del, on hardware console)
>What if there is X server running?  Do you with that kernel itself
>switch to text console like Solaris on SPARC?

If there's an x server running, it does this invisibly - which isn't ideal,
but it's often better than not being able to get the machine to sync disks
at all.

-s