Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:00:04 +0100 From: Mark Reidel <mark@reidel.info> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Unable to boot without VGA-card Message-ID: <47C86444.4070807@reidel.info>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list, 2 days ago, I upgraded my router from 6.3 to 7-PRERELEASE, because I wanted journaling UFS. This all worked well, because I have two hard disks. So I created a journaling ad1s1a.journal and copied all the stuff. This PC doesn't have VGA-card, no slots are free. When the copying finished, I saw that 7.0 was released, upgraded and rsynced the diffs to my journaled partition. Then I added vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:ufs/backup" to /boot/loader.conf on ad0s1a, so the kernel comes from ad0s1a and the userland from ad1s1a.journal (aka ufs/backup). Then I rebooted and the machine hung. Expecting to have done something wrong, I put in my workstation's VGA-card, booted and it simply worked as expected. As soon as I remove my VGA-card, the machine doesn't boot anymore. The kdb-LEDs get initialized, the HD shows an activity-splash and then nothing. I figure it must boot the kernel and then have problems in the userland. But neither entering return for /bin/sh and then fastboot, nor entering ufs:ad0s1a did something, so it's not waiting for one of those inputs. I don't have null-modem-cable available and setting the system to boot from sio also hangs it, so I'm really stuck here. Does anybody have any idea what else I could try? Regards, - Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkfIZEQACgkQwceHY2QbsCgt6wCg3uHEWBJ1jN164F/zoaj9XyG7 UdYAniMshRiz9ZkwJyR/6cDd1BJxVtZi =cAbs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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