Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:47:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: request for a new "feature" as regards DDB Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960423094041.20911F-100000@freebsd.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199604231000.MAA20823@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>>> So...any way of having an auto-switch to vt0 if the system > >>>> crashes with DDB enabled? > > > > Use syscons. > > I don't understand. Are you saying "syscons auto-switches to vt0 if > the system crashes with DDB enabled", or are you saying "if you use > syscons, you can still change after entering DDB", or are you saying > something else? > Something I found out with this mornings system panic...even with pcvt, you can switch between vt's. I don't know why yesterday after I couldn't, but I would think that the hang yesterday was something more then just a system panic :( As far as the suggestion to use syscons is concerned...has it recently been modified to support vt100 nicely? Does cons50 have the same functionality? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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