Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:25:13 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: alk@pobox.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Lost console Message-ID: <199907260225.LAA07433@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:04:07 EST." <14235.49122.970966.568427@avalon.east> References: <14235.26016.454033.194916@avalon.east> <199907260141.KAA05141@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <14235.49122.970966.568427@avalon.east>
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>: 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. I am suspecting that somehow your system is trying to use the serial console. Please provide your /var/run/dmesg.out, /boot.config, /boot/loader.rc and your kernel configuration file. Without these info, it is extremely difficult to give you any advice. When you ever see "Login:" prompt, you should be able to login to the system. (It may take relatively a long time.) Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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