Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:23:22 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: serial console + boot blip Message-ID: <XFMail.020110142322.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020110205850.GA14046@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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On 10-Jan-02 Leo Bicknell wrote:
> 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.
You can't have your cake and eat it, too. Pick one or the other. :)
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