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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:00:07 -0800
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: kern/845: Automatic reboot says you can abort but boots anyway
Message-ID:  <199511282100.NAA04823@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/845; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: hsu@clinet.fi
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/845: Automatic reboot says you can abort but boots anyway
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:16:25 +0100 (MET)

 As Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
 > 
 > 	After a panic, the system says
 > 
 > 	Automatic reboot in 15 seconds, press any key to abort
 > 
 > 	but keypress has no effect, it reboots anyway, making it hard to
 > 	recover the panic message.
 > 
 > 	I think this feature worked before, but I'm not sure whether it
 > 	worked after I switched into pcvt.
 
 This is a pcvt bogon.  I have yet to figure out why this happens.
 (The code to handle this is there and "looks right", but it never
 worked after the transition to the cnstat() functions.)
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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