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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:58:50 -0500
From:      Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: serial console + boot blip
Message-ID:  <20020110205850.GA14046@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020110124744.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020110202617.GA13083@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <XFMail.020110124744.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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In a message written on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:47:44PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> > As as aside, I'm also thinking it might be useful to have a prompt
> > at that point (on serial console anyway) asking if you want to go
> > into single user mode, since you don't get to select that earlier
> > with a serial console.
> 
> Sure you can.  Interrupt the loader and do 'boot -s' just like you would on a
> video console.

Ok, maybe I'm just not getting in soon enough to see that then,
due to it not letting me in until DTR is high.

> > Have others noticed this behavior?  Does anyone know a way to
> > work around it?  Does some init genuis know why this happens?
> 
> I have not had this behavior before, but as Alfred mentioned, I do use nohup on
> my terminals.

Setting nohup means that when I log out it won't hangup though,
right? I like that behavior, what I don't like is the hangup on
the switch from kernel mode to {single,multi}-user mode.

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