yes, this is right. my mistake! 
isildur

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Lord Isildur wrote:
> 
> > exactly. though, hitting the halt button will also drop you to the console,
> > and doesnt depend on anything in the kernel working correctly.. 
> 
>  The halt button on 3MIN and 3MAX+ systems is an ordinary I/O ASIC
> interrupt which can get masked and also needs a working handler to have
> any effect at all.  Thus e.g. if a kernel locks up with interrupts masked
> in the CPU, the halt button won't recover -- a reset, i.e. effectively a
> power cycle is required.
> 
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