From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 10 14:24:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3A137B41E for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16770 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2002 22:23:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jan 2002 22:23:56 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020110205850.GA14046@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:23:22 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Leo Bicknell Subject: Re: serial console + boot blip Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org 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 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. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message