Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:50:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Joachim.Isaksson@ibfs.com (Joachim Isaksson) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to console code? Message-ID: <199905051350.PAA25947@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <000f01be96fc$ebafe210$8cbc2dc1@ibfs.com> from Joachim Isaksson at "May 5, 1999 3:41: 3 pm"
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It seems Joachim Isaksson wrote: > Hi, > > I was running current 4.0 990318 (as far as I can remember, can look that up > once I get home from work), and yesterday I decided to do an upgrade to 990504 > via a clean install from boot floppy. > > My console now decides to go blank when the probe for sc0 is attempted. As far > as I can see it never gets any further in the boot sequence. Luckily I got the > problem at floppy boot, not after killing my old system off :) Hmm, I've seen this a couble of times, but a reboot have succeded every time. The machine is locked solid when this happens, so I've kindof written it off as flaky HW, that might have been premature. I thought it was hanging in the VESA/VM86 code, but I dont think that is enabled on the boot floppy... Hmm... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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