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Subject: Re: Issues with nullconsole in FreeBSD 6.0-p6
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Jonas Blow wrote this message on Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 00:24 +0200:
> I've tried to debug the problem. I've not figured out how to remotely
> debug a kernel when using nullconsole. The escape to debugger hot keys
> (Ctrl+Alt+Esc or Ctrl+SysReq) does not work when using
> nullconsole. Therefor it is not possible to switch to remote mode. Can
> DDB be force to go directly into remote mode?

well, one way would be to setup dcons over firewire, and then not use
dcons, but use the gdb port to be able to access and manipulate the
machine..

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