From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 10 12:59: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D80E37B422; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:58:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g0AKwon14119; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:58:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:58:50 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: serial console + boot blip Message-ID: <20020110205850.GA14046@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: John Baldwin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org References: <20020110202617.GA13083@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: United Federation of Planets Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message written on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:47:44PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > As as aside, I'm also thinking it might be useful to have a prompt > > at that point (on serial console anyway) asking if you want to go > > into single user mode, since you don't get to select that earlier > > with a serial console. > > Sure you can. Interrupt the loader and do 'boot -s' just like you would on a > video console. Ok, maybe I'm just not getting in soon enough to see that then, due to it not letting me in until DTR is high. > > Have others noticed this behavior? Does anyone know a way to > > work around it? Does some init genuis know why this happens? > > I have not had this behavior before, but as Alfred mentioned, I do use nohup on > my terminals. Setting nohup means that when I log out it won't hangup though, right? I like that behavior, what I don't like is the hangup on the switch from kernel mode to {single,multi}-user mode. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message