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Date:      Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:47:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: today's current: boot/loader and console
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020103224742.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200201040351.g043pgl00593@aldan.algebra.com>

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On 04-Jan-02 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> After 25 days of  uptime I rebuilt the world, and can  no longer boot as
> usual. Both boot/loader and boot/loader.old (from Oct 30) flash the list
> of devices and immediately reset the computer.

Any chance you could setup a serial console and catch the output?
 
> My only way  to bring it up is  to press space at the  right moment, get
> the Boot: prompt and load/boot kernel directly bypassing the loader.
> 
> This  works, but  there  is  no console  output  (it  goes from  spinner
> straight into  the login prompt). I  guess, the console output  is being
> sent down sio0, where there is  an external modem now. Turning the modem
> off does not change anything...

No, you have no console because you have no hints.  If you statically compile
your hints into your kernel, you will have a console again.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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