Booting

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 04 July 2013, Juan Orti Alcaine sent:
> Another good option if everything else fails (and you have configured 
> previously kernel.sysrq=1 with sysctl) is:
> 
> Alt+SysRq+ {R, E, I, S, U, B}
> 
> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#Uses 

Would you expect this to work with USB keyboards?  There's more
protocols in the way of USB than PS/2, or other schemes, requiring a
working operating system.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.8-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 19:19:57 UTC 2013 x86_64

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