Ctrl-Alt-ESC during boot

walt wa1ter at myrealbox.com
Wed Jan 26 13:00:48 PST 2005



On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Chuck Tuffli wrote:

> boot -d does drop the OS into ddb, but after continuing, ctrl-alt-esc
> doesn't break into ddb.

I discovered (the hard way) that there is a kernel config option
SC_DISABLE_DDBKEY which has that effect.  Is there any chance that
the kernel on the CD was compiled with that option?  I suppose only(?)
Matt would know.  The option is not in the GENERIC kernel but is
in LINT.






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