From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 07:56:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE0A16A418 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:56:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from raven.bwct.de (raven.bwct.de [85.159.14.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5C813C468 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:56:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de ([10.1.1.7]) by raven.bwct.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id lBL7k7TO069735; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:46:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [10.1.1.14]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id lBL7jwoe087269 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:45:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lBL7jw96070002; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:45:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id lBL7jvax070001; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:45:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:45:57 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20071221074556.GA69673@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <476AF132.4080304@chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <476AF132.4080304@chuckr.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.4-STABLE alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=0.048, BAYES_00=-2.599 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on cicely12.cicely.de Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: printing boot probe messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:56:49 -0000 On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you are > booting yoiur machine (you know, mostly probe messages. I used to see them on > this box. When I made my first kernel, I had begun (obviously, as we all do) > with GENERIC as a base, but changing the first loaders.hints and the kernel, > that's the last I saw of booting messages. > > To illustrate what I *do* see, I watch the first character of that little > spiller, but only the very first char, because that's when it stops working, > right after sicking the first char. Thbe nest thing I see, maybe 30 seconds > later, is a Login: request. Sounds like your console is configured to a different device. Maybe it is configured to serial while you are waiting on vga. > Any notion what I could do to get my booting messages back? Switch the console to the device you are looking at. You can easily check the configured console by running conscontrol. Maybe you've lost the device hint for your console device to flag it as beeing a possible console candidate. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de