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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:15:06 +0100
From:      Sven Hazejager <sven@hazejager.nl>
To:        freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix
Message-ID:  <8ffccde70911110015q67d85c8fhfc420cbde07443@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 21:00, Sven Hazejager <sven@hazejager.nl> wrote:
> I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an
> Alix serial-only system. Symptom: I'm seeing boot0sio fine, I can get
> into the loader etc. boot after typing "boot" or letting it timeout, I
> see "Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]..." and I get one "/" character on
> the next line but then everything stops.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

In an attempt to minimize FreeBSD for nanoBSD I had WITHOUT_FORTH=true
in my /etc/src.conf. That apparently breaks the passing of boot flags
to the kernel, which causes the kernel to use the VGA output even
though boot.config has "-h" and console=comconsole in the loader.

On the ALIX, that resulted in a "silent" kernel because it has no VGA.

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.

Sven



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