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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 23:07:02 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Cc: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Terminals
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On 2005-09-05 12:55, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas [keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] wrote:
>>On 2005-09-05 00:25, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>>> if you crash a box why would a serial console still work?
>>
>>It would still work if the kernel has KDB compiled in.  I'm not sure if
>>this is what the original poster meant though.
>
> I had a 4.11 box just freeze the other day (our news server)
>
> power-cycling got it running again, nothing else worked.
>
> It would be nice to pretend all OUR crashes end up in kernel
> panics but this isn't reality.

Well, you have a point there.
I've never seen a hard freeze, but that doesn't seem they don't exist.