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On 02/20/13 14:14, Xin Li wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that fresh -HEAD would give an unusable kernel that
> overwrites screen buffer in a way making it impossible to debug.
> Using an old world source to do 'make buildworld buildkernel' results
> in a (mostly: I have some strange USB issue right now and still
> looking for the cause) usable kernel.
> 
> For now my known good combination is world 246858 with kernel 247057.
>  I'm still trying to find out which revision have broke the stuff.

I ran into this earlier today.  Selecting "safe mode" in the boot loader
menu seems to work around the problem on my system.  Now I will not
reboot until I see a fix for this in head :-)

Regards,
Navdeep