From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 15 15: 0:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A7437B405 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:00:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id g1FN0He19557; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 00:00:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g1FMpeeS085944; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:51:40 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1FMpd134610; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:51:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:51:38 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Riccardo Torrini Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Don't remove sc.0 from hints... Message-ID: <20020215225137.GF30571@cicely8.cicely.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:56:17PM +0100, Riccardo Torrini wrote: > ...or strange things happens. > > When trying to discover why /dev/speaker disappears from my last > build (cvsupped on Feb 14, 20:21 CET) I commented sc.0 lines on > /boot/device.hints. Big mistake :-) > > I think some sort of auto-pilot must stop this. Initial boot > without sc.0 hint hide all highlight messages, going from You only need sc.0 if you are running graphic console. It is not always true and some people are using machines without graphic cards. Additionaly some people use vt as an alternative to sc. How can an auto-pilot know that you need sc? > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... > > directly to login: prompt. And playing with vi and scroll back > and forward (on console) lead me to an automatic reboot without > and message (neither crash nor panic). > > I just uncommented sc.0 lines and all go right way, pfiuu :-) You can still manualy add them on the loader prompt or switch to a serial console. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message