Mac mini and FreeBSD - buildworld

[Peter Grehan]

>> Command-Power on powerbooks does an NMI IIRC.
> 
> 
> Heh.  I was wondering about that, but the USB keyboard that I have
> does not include a power-on key...
> 
> My mac was not responding to anything on the keyboard, and attempts to
> ssh into the box were timing out, so I held down the power button on
> the back of the Mac-mini for a few (10?) seconds.  That successfully
> powered it down, and then I powered it back up.

  That's the equivalent for machines that don't have a programmer's
switch (e.g. eMac, G5 powermacs) since the external PMU microcontroller
handles the power switch and can be programmed to either cycle the power 
  or generate the 'nmi' interrupt.

later,

Peter.