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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the <CTL-ALT-DEL> key
Date: 6 Mar 1994 16:28:18 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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References: <1994Mar6.092836.5938@gold.muc.de>
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In article <1994Mar6.092836.5938@gold.muc.de>,
Christian Seyb <cs@gold.muc.de> wrote:

>I just installed FreeBSD and realized, that the <clt-alt-del> combination
>reboots the system. This seems a little strange to me.

In 1.1, this will send a signal to `init' and cause the machine to
shut itself down nicely.

>As I don't like this behaviour, I commented this out in syscons.c. Are
>there any side effects to this?

No.  You should probably get the `syscons' utility (look in the
packages directory on wcarchive), which you can use to re-define your
keymaps on the fly, without installing a new kernel.

>Is there any (easy) way to install FreeBSD on the second disk? It took
>me quite a bit to get a working system with Linux on the first and
>FreeBSD on the second disk booting with LILO.

None as yet.  We'd like to have this working...

-GAWollman

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