Hi,

I've got another quite frustrating problem with my new NetBSD box.

I got all the hardware for the computer I just installed for very
cheap (free, that is) so I don't have: keyboard, video card and
monitor for the computer. I plugged the required things from
one other of my computers to the new box and got NetBSD installed.
After a little while of digging around and trying things out
I got the serial port console working.

I don't keep the computer, to which the serial port console
is connected, on all the time and NetBSD apparently finds this
hard to cope with: when I turn the console machine off, back
on and fire up a terminal program I am greeted with a cheery db>
prompt from the NetBSD machine.

Why is this, and is there anything I can do?

Hmm... I just tried this: I unplugged the serial cable from
the NetBSD box and then plugged it back in: I get the normal,
nice login: prompt in my terminal. So I can unplug the cable
and THEN turn off my Amiga, which is a solution, of course.

But anyway, what causes the db> prompt in the above situation:
turn machine off, turn it on and somehow in the other end of
the cable there is a debugger waiting.

(sorry if I've written gibberish: its late...)

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Arto Huusko
E-Mail : arto.huusko@maailma.yok.utu.fi
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