From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 4 14:42:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABD337B41E; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:42:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g04Mchl11179; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:38:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200201042238.g04Mchl11179@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:38:40 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: today's current: boot/loader and console To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 > Are your loader and 4th files in sync? There was a change to the 4th > scripts that I thought I sent a heads up about. The hints did not change since forever: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2030 Feb 10 2001 device.hints Everything else seems fresh: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7721 Jan 3 20:34 loader.4th -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 35097 Jan 3 20:34 support.4th -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 174080 Jan 3 20:34 pxeboot -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 176128 Jan 3 20:34 liloboot drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 20:34 defaults -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 172032 Jan 3 20:34 loader > Anyways, do this to get the error message: go into > /sys/boot/i386/loader, edit main.c, and change the exit() function to > do a while(1); loop before callign __exit(). Compile a new loader and > install it and then see what message you get. Mmm, Ok... Next time I reboot, I'll post the results... Thanks! > You don't have a seiral console, you have _no_ kernel console. :) > Since you are booting from boot2 and not the loader, your hints aren't > getting loaded, so you aren't getting a kernel console. There was time, when direct booting of the kernel was working... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message