From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 6 14:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E5D37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13WmYS-000Cq9-0X; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:16:25 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04501; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:17:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:17:23 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Andrew Gallatin , John Baldwin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what was the last patch you sent out? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > This kind of stuff is tough to debug- it's just a the point > > > where things are getting rewired, so even printfs are problematic. > > > > > > Since the '-fl' argument is broken, and BREAKS don't work to get you out of > > > where you are, it's a lot of getting up and hitting the reset button. > > > > The -fl argument works for me. It ignores -file but -flags appears to work > > (at least on my 433au). > sorry- meant '-fi' A bogus workaround is to press space in the loader to interrupt it, then 'unload' and 'load kernel.foo' -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8348 3944 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message