Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:19:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Console - broken? (src as of 10/16 @ 16:43) Message-ID: <199810180119.SAA08612@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:42:20 BST." <3628F31C.29EE2587@tdx.co.uk>
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> > > Mike Smith wrote: > > > Um, try checking the flags on your serial console. You should have 0x10 > > or 0x30, but 0x50 or 0x70 would be bad. (ie. you don't want 0x40 set). > > > > Apart from that, there's the hideous fear that something leaked in and > > GDB is the default debugger. Ick. > > Hmmm... Serial console is definitely set to: > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x30 tty irq 4 vector > siointr > > I presume 'Ick' is bad, but how bad? - i.e. easily fixable? You're going to have to work out why it's dropping into gdb mode rather than ddb mode; check the value of 'boothowto' inside the kernel. What happens if you break to the debugger manually? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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