Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:32:17 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common panic.c Message-ID: <3C052DB1.3040906@tcoip.com.br> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011128131657.37721O-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > >>Yes, it does. This is panic on loader, though. If it panics on loader >>once, it will always panic on loader without manual (console) >>intervention. >> >>I'm open to hearing arguments/evidence to the contrary, though. >> > > With pxeboot, I can replace the loader on whim; if I'm pulling stuff in > and out using an NFS root I can change the sets of modules and scripts run > remotely, etc. When you say "console intervention", do you include the > serial console? If so, no problem; if not, then I'd rather have a > spinning boot than have to hit a key on the real system console :-). > > Of course, one of the things I dislike about my current batch of PXE boxes > is that if PXE fails, it requires a console keypress to try again without > hard booting :-(. It's a getchar() inside loader. It gets that from whatever was assigned as a console. Serial console is one option. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. -- Fran Lebowitz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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