Re: fatal error handling

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> Currently, a fatal crash prints a message on console, but doesn't
> do anything sensible after that.  One can press all the keys but
> all that happens is the fatal error message is repeated.
> 
> What I advocate above is to change that.  After the fatal error is
> reported, create a coldboot by calling the appropriate TOS message.

There's nothing to change. Of course, the system doesn't react on any
keys, because it is actually halted. Any keys, except for Control/Alt/Del.
I see no point in changing that to any other key or combination. At least
the message says "YOU MUST REBOOT THE SYSTEM" and Control/Alt/Del is the
obvious way to do that, isn't it? 

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Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
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