From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 3 22:48:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D9237B426 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:48:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28668 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 06:47:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Jan 2002 06:47:59 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200201040351.g043pgl00593@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:47:42 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Mikhail Teterin Subject: RE: today's current: boot/loader and console Cc: current@FreeBSD.org 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 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message