From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 10 18:22:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C928B37B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA98857; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:22:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Michael Grant Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: effective use of serial console In-Reply-To: <200010101917.VAA25595@splat.grant.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > From: Warner Losh > > > > You can always hack sio to make the break character call reboot rather > > > > than debugger. > > > > > > Once in the debugger, can't one call reboot manually? How would you > > > do that? > > > > call boot(0) > > > > It works about half the time I try it (although thankfully I haven't > > needed it for a while). > > err, what's it do the other 50%, hang and then you need to power > cycle? Correct-o. > Is there a better way if you don't have access to the power > switch other than installing something like the NPS previously > mentioned? There are times when physical access to the machine is a requirement. In other words, yes, you can wedge a freebsd box to the point where a power cycle is the only solution. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message