[ale] tty1 vs tty2,3,4,etc

[Brian Pitts]

On 06/08/2010 10:34 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> what is special about tty1? In Fedora 12 I have turned on Magic SysRq.
> This allows me to press alt-sysrq-k and slaughter everything running on
> a tty. Works fine for tty2+ but causes a system panic and hard crash on
> tty1.
>
> Is init hard bound to tty1?

Interesting. Doesn't X run on tty1 in Fedora 12?


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Brian Pitts