From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 28 10:33:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (cerberus.tcoip.com.br [200.220.254.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9198337B448; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from tcoip.com.br (0gqxq3auo7yqs9my@[192.168.60.194]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fASIWIV29501; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:32:18 -0200 Message-ID: <3C052DB1.3040906@tcoip.com.br> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:32:17 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011123 X-Accept-Language: en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: Wilko Bulte , "Daniel C. Sobral" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common panic.c References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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