Keith
        I use SLES9 SP1. I have tried the method u mentioned but it still dose not 
work. I think it might be a bug of suse distribution and I will report them it.

        Thanx a lot for your help:)

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 2004年11月2日 19:28
To: Chen, Yukun
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Failed to enter KDB on terminal program via key sequence "Ctrl-A" 

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:38:42 +0800, 
"Chen, Yukun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all
>       I failed to switch to kdb environment in terminal program
>(minicom in Linux or HyperTerminal in Windows) via "Ctrl-A". 
>       On host machine, I can enter kdb environment via "Pause" (which
>will cause the kdb screen appears on terminal machine, it is OK). But
>failed to do so on terminal machine via "Ctrl-A"(no responses).
>       My environment is Suse sles 9 , kernel 2.6.5.
>       Anybody has ever meet such issue?
>       Thanx.

As a general rule, you should direct questions about distribution
specific patches to the distribution, not to this list.  Mainly because
distributions make their own changes.  But I'm in a good mood so ...

Which version of SuSE SLES 9?  SLES9 base has kdb v4.3, and SuSE
changed the KDB serial entry sequence from control-A to startKDB, but
only for the powerpc build.  SLES9 SP1 has kdb v4.4, which uses
escape-KDB as the entry sequence.  There is a message early in boot
that says which version of kdb you are using.

Watch out for minicom, it uses control-A as its own sequence.  To send
control-A to the kernel over minicom, you have to press it twice.
Which is one of the reasons that the sequence changed from kdb v4.3 to
v4.4.


---------------------------
Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.

Reply via email to