From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 17 18:15:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13877 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles113.castles.com [208.214.165.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13861 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08612; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:19:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810180119.SAA08612@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Karl Pielorz cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Console - broken? (src as of 10/16 @ 16:43) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:42:20 BST." <3628F31C.29EE2587@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:19:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Mike Smith wrote: > > > Um, try checking the flags on your serial console. You should have 0x10 > > or 0x30, but 0x50 or 0x70 would be bad. (ie. you don't want 0x40 set). > > > > Apart from that, there's the hideous fear that something leaked in and > > GDB is the default debugger. Ick. > > Hmmm... Serial console is definitely set to: > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x30 tty irq 4 vector > siointr > > I presume 'Ick' is bad, but how bad? - i.e. easily fixable? You're going to have to work out why it's dropping into gdb mode rather than ddb mode; check the value of 'boothowto' inside the kernel. What happens if you break to the debugger manually? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message