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To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
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Subject: Re: Lost console 
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Quoth Kazutaka YOKOTA on Mon, 26 July:
: 
: >After upgrading from 3.2 CD to 3.2-STABLE, the console disappears
: >when the kernel boots.  How can I stop this behaviour?
: 
: I think you should still be able to login to the system via network.
: Send me /var/run/dmesg.out, /boot.config, /boot/loader.rc and your
: kernel configuration file for examination.

(Sorry.  Insufficient clarity is ever the petty hobgoblin that haunts
my email.  Or is it otiose purple?  I forget.)

What I mean to describe is that, from the time /boot/loader beings a
"boot" until "Login:", no console activity is visible.  If it never
gets that far -- c'est perdu.  Attempting to "boot -s" results in no
better results:  No prompt ever appears.  Sometimes I can ctl-alt-del
my way back to the BIOS, in order to boot a different kernel, and
sometimes I can't.

I'm expecting that there is a config element required in order to
avoid this behaviour.  Inspection of GENERIC and LINT did not make
it evident, however, and a bisection search on LINT would take an
absurd amount of time, hence my query.


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