From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 08:27:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA04823 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 08:27:12 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA04803 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 08:27:05 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA11135; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:29:08 -0600 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:29:08 -0600 Message-Id: <199508161529.JAA11135@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Carl Harris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt on boot diskette In-Reply-To: <199508161138.HAA24852@husky.cslab.vt.edu> References: <199508161138.HAA24852@husky.cslab.vt.edu> Reply-To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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 have seen this here, but I've also got a boot floppy which seems to work. It's available at: ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming/nate/TPAD.flp. I've now also got a fixit floppy which I use to install the kernel on the system as well, since the kernel that's installed from the normal system is a syscons kernel which is useless. > I would suspect it was just something flaky about our laptops (Thinkpad > 755C), but the same results occur on desktop machines. There may be some sort of corruption that somehow the pcvt kernel is hitting. > 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). Ah, sorry. That was me. I can make a ThinkPad floppy using a kernel from the recent snap if need be, but it will contain the sysinstall stuff from 2.0.5. Nate