detatch windbg kernel debugger & keep target running

Question

Consider below scenario:

1. I have setup debug over serial port on a windows 7 system.
2. On another machine, I have installed windbg & connected serial cable between them.

When I start the target machine, & have windbg running on debugger machine, the connection between windbg & windows kernel gets established properly & I am able to debug as per what I want.

My problem is:

When the connection is established, there is no way to detatch the kernel debugging & allow it to run as stand-alone.
I often need to remove / re-install driver. Having the debugger attached is completely un-necessarily for this & it makes the installation very slow.

Simple solution is not starting windbg at all. But is there a way to just detatch debugger & allow the system to free-run, after the connection was established? Currently, detatching the debugger keeps the target system in frozen state, allowing the user to be re-connected again.

NOTE: Any hacky way is welcome too. There is no clean way. (known to me at least.)

Answer 1

Not that I'm aware of. I remember at some point (XP, maybe?) the target machine would time out after a while (30-60 seconds) and continue running, but I don't think that's true any longer.

Can you use .kdfiles instead of uninstalling/re-installing? Or, even better, switch to 1394.