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Date:      Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:44:47 -0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH
Message-ID:  <3EA85ACF.2010600@newsguy.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030424182540.GA64750@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030424171439.GA56367@sunbay.com> <XFMail.20030424142117.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030424182540.GA64750@sunbay.com>

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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:21:17PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>>On 24-Apr-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>
>>>On 5.x, loader(8) compiled with -DNOFORTH, results in
>>>a system without a console.  This does not affect the
>>>RELENG_4.
>>>
>>>Can someone who knows this code please look into it?
>>
>>No kernel console or no loader console?  The usual problem with
>>no kernel console on 5.x is lack of device.hints.
>>
> 
> No kernel console.  The device.hints, it's there under /boot;
> I only reinstalled loader(8) with -DNOFORTH, and this gave me
> "no console" behavior.  Can you try it locally?

If you don't have FICL on loader, device.hints is not automatically 
loaded. Indeed, it's not even readable by loader. Check out what the 
floppy disks do.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
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	Spellng is overated anywy.



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