Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:58:51 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common panic.c Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011210105714.4035B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <54466.1007977919@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 19:13:21 PST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/boot/common panic.c > > > Log: > > > Waits for a keypress before rebooting on panic. > > > > This sounds scary for unattended machines. Perhaps this should be > > wrapped with DDB_UNATTENDED. > > As was pointed out when dcs first made this change, the panic in > question happens so early that an automatic reboot isn't going to > achieve anything. And my follow-up point was that with pxeboot, it will make a difference--I can swap out the loader and its various configuration files at run-time on the NFS server. I prefered solution might be to detect the netboot case, and sleep 30 seconds or something before rebooting, but pause on a non-netboot? Or, simply take the same approach as DDB_UNATTENDED -- allow some sort of configuration (maybe at compile-time) to select the behavior. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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