On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Ryan Ordway wrote:

> crashing. It is supposedly running a serial console to my Powermac 8100 on
> the modem port (to the modem port on the 8100), but then the Q630 dies and
> goes into the debugger. I disabled the serial console and the problem went
> away. I remember seeing a message to the list eons ago about a system with
> a serial console dying similarly. Is there a fix for this? It would be
> nice to have the serial console, since this is a headless system.

Is it *crashing*, with errors, or is it just breaking into the
debugger? Try typing `c' at the "db>" prompt to see if it goes on for
a while. If that's all it is, it would be the 8100 doing something
that looks a like a "break", which is how you tell the serial console
to break into the debugger. You can disable that by building a kernel
with "options ZS_CONSOLE_ABORT" commented out.

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Frederick