From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 04:38:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA19788 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 04:38:18 -0700 Received: from husky.cslab.vt.edu (husky.cs.vt.edu [128.173.41.87]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA19782 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 04:38:16 -0700 Received: (ceharris@localhost) by husky.cslab.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) id HAA24852 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 07:38:09 -0400 From: Carl Harris Message-Id: <199508161138.HAA24852@husky.cslab.vt.edu> Subject: pcvt on boot diskette To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 07:38:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1277 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jordan's help in puzzling out the steps required to build a custom release did the trick -- I now have a 2.0.5 release with all the device support we need for our site. Thanks, much, Jordan! Now on to the point of this message... I'm having difficulty making a boot diskette that uses the pcvt console driver (using scanset 2 for our laptops). Actually, making the diskette was no problem -- booting from it is a different story. The kernel loads normally, but when it finishes decompressing and prints "done", the machine immediately reboots. If I go back into my CHROOTDIR, and change the config to use the sc console device and run another 'make floppies', it works just fine. I would suspect it was just something flaky about our laptops (Thinkpad 755C), but the same results occur on desktop machines. Has anyone else seen this behavior? -- Carl Harris Systems Engineer Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech ceharris@cs.vt.edu P.S. I should also note that I saw a post from someone in the ...freebsd.misc newsgroup group who had made a boot floppy for the Thinkpad available via ftp. I got that floppy image and tried it, and it does in fact work. However, it won't do for my needs since it was from a recent snapshot (i.e. not 2.0.5-R).