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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH
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On 24-Apr-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:21:17PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 24-Apr-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> > On 5.x, loader(8) compiled with -DNOFORTH, results in
>> > a system without a console.  This does not affect the
>> > RELENG_4.
>> > 
>> > Can someone who knows this code please look into it?
>> 
>> No kernel console or no loader console?  The usual problem with
>> no kernel console on 5.x is lack of device.hints.
>> 
> No kernel console.  The device.hints, it's there under /boot;
> I only reinstalled loader(8) with -DNOFORTH, and this gave me
> "no console" behavior.  Can you try it locally?

Since device.hints is read in by Forth code, I wouldn't be
surprised if it didn't work.  When you break into the 10
second countdown, do you have any hints set in the loader
environment?

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