From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 05:01:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA15600 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 05:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.gaffaneys.com (dialup10.gaffaneys.com [134.129.252.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA15593 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 05:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zach@localhost) by freebsd.gaffaneys.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA05351; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:02:57 -0500 (CDT) To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Cc: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new twist on the reboot problems References: <199607240704.AAA11312@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> From: Zach Heilig Date: 24 Jul 1996 07:02:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com"'s message of Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:04:49 -0700 Message-ID: <87afwpc0zz.fsf@freebsd.gaffaneys.com> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.32/Emacs 19.31 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" writes: > Incidentally, if you want to be *sure* you capture all panic output, > you might consider putting a comconsole into your kernel and hooking a > serial terminal with scrollback and/or logging (old PC running kermit > works fine) up to be the console. Then, no matter what gets written, > or not written, before the machine freaks out, and before fsck > "cleans" everything, you have it all logged on a separate machine. Speaking of re-routing the console, I noticed this option is called COMconsole (caps for emphasis). Is there anyway to re-route the console to a parallel port? I don't get many console messages (I'm the only one who uses it), so routing them to a printer wouldn't be a bad idea. (Though I'd have to come up with a second parallel port, I don't want to use my laser for console messages... but that's an entirely different problem) -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing only culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.