In a message written on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:47:44PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> > As as aside, I'm also thinking it might be useful to have a prompt
> > at that point (on serial console anyway) asking if you want to go
> > into single user mode, since you don't get to select that earlier
> > with a serial console.
>
> Sure you can. Interrupt the loader and do 'boot -s' just like you would on a
> video console.
Ok, maybe I'm just not getting in soon enough to see that then,
due to it not letting me in until DTR is high.
> > Have others noticed this behavior? Does anyone know a way to
> > work around it? Does some init genuis know why this happens?
>
> I have not had this behavior before, but as Alfred mentioned, I do use nohup on
> my terminals.
Setting nohup means that when I log out it won't hangup though,
right? I like that behavior, what I don't like is the hangup on
the switch from kernel mode to {single,multi}-user mode.
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