System Crash

root at spdyne.UUCP root at spdyne.UUCP
Fri Jan 6 07:24:00 AEST 1989


In reference to the virtual consoles question:

>>>     Do I have to bring the System down or what?
>>> 
>>
>>    You should not have to bring the system down. The only exception
>>to what you and I are doing is that I did not use the plain vanilla
>>kernel that came with the system. I immediately generated a kernel
>>with the Everex Tape driver, rebooted and then added the extra
>>consoles. I did not do anything in linkkit to enable them. It is
>[...]
>
>Use patch to look at a kernel variable called 'kd_numttys'.  I This
>is (I think) the maximum number of virtual consoles.  It is set in the
>linkkit to be 32.  It may however only be four in the distributed
>version.
>
>-brian

	Well, no luck, I too don't have a plain vanilla system, I have linked
in a Digi-board driver for additional comm ports.. (Comm/Xi board). I looked
at that variable and it came back 0x20 or 32 just like yours. So what do
I try next?

	- Chert Pellett
	root at spdyne














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Brian D. Cuthie                                 uunet!umbc3!cbw1!brian
Columbia, MD                                    brian at umbc3.umd.edu

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