From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 14 15:22:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF7637B400 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1ENMeD27244; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:22:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:22:40 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200202142322.g1ENMeD27244@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel after halt issued In-Reply-To: <3C6C0965.206509B4@mitre.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.5-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > [...] > Is the kernel still running after a halt? In general, when you halt the system, you are returned to the hardware monitor (OpenBoot, SRM console, whatever it's called on your platform). However, since the i386 hardware (unlike most everything else) does not have a hardware monitor, an infinite loop is entered when you halt the system. It could be argued that it would make sense to return to /boot/loader. But I don't think that would be easy to do. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message