Messages in this thread |  | | From | Grant Guenther <> | Subject | Re: Serial Console v0.1 ? | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:40:56 -0500 (EST) |
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> This morning, when I flicked on my dumb terminal, I had something > interesting running: > > break> > > Which apparently is the prompt for "Serial Console v0.1". After > fiddling around some, I found an option for displaying the panic, > continuing or rebooting. Panic?? What panic?? I hit the "C"ontinue and > my machine looked fine, except that according to the clock it was 11pm > last night and the machine had done NOTHING between then and now. > > What exactly is this console? Why did it pop up and freeze my box? It > seems related to the serial console patch, but I've never seen it > before. And if it was there to help debug a panic, it didn't perform > well in that area ... no information was available. I didn't see a > panic anyplace (no syslog of it) and the machine was still functional, > just frozen in time. > > Inquiring minds want to know ....
Just a hunch: does your "dumb terminal" cause a break when it is powered off ? Does pressing the 'break' key on your keyboard put you into this same mode ?
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