This is because when your linux box acting as console goes down, the
serial line goes flat, which is interpreted by the vax as a break, and
VAXen halt and drop to console when they get a break on the console. 
you can change this from the console. power up, bring it to the chevron , 
and do a help to see what options you can set
on eof them, i think halt or haltaction or something, will be what you 
want. there, you can tell itnot to halt on breaks. 

Isildur


On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Chuck Dickman wrote:

> I have a VS3100/M30 running NetBSD 1.5. The console/printer port is
> connected to a Linux box and any time Linux is rebooted or shutdown, the
> VAX halts. Is there a way to change this behavior? My PDP-11/73 has a
> switch to prevent console breaks from causing a halt. Is something
> similar available for the VAX? I have searched for information and found
> the topic, but no solutions. Any suggestions?
> 
> Chuck Dickman
> 
> PS The VAX only has 8MB of memory, any cheap sources of additional
> memory?
>