Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:42:30 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [amd64] Instability worse than ever Message-ID: <XFMail.20040725124230.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040725035315.GA1473@green.homeunix.org>
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On 25-Jul-2004 Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:33:57PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> >> >> Been meaning to ask about that. Would a null modem connection from >> my other machine be useable as the serial console? I have all the >> kernel config options and the sio flags set to enable the serial >> console, but wasn't sure if that would work or not. If so, I could >> try that. > > Absolutely; I just set this up a few days ago, so I know this works > with -CURRENT. First, set the sio.0.flags hint in > /boot/device.hints to "0x90" so it is a vailable for use as a serial > console. Then, set up the kernel with DDB and KDB and set > /etc/sysctl.conf to turn the debug.debugger_on_panic switch to 1. > You should probably be running with at least WITNESS and INVARIANTS, > but not necessarily DIAGNOSTIC. Thanks, will do! -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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