From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 20:55:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E2916A474 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:55:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from conducive.net (lindfield.ch [203.194.153.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B50913C491 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:55:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from cm218-253-81-177.hkcable.com.hk ([218.253.81.177]:64193 helo=pb.local) by conducive.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IrgJB-000NyY-8t for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:55:01 +0000 Message-ID: <4738BDA4.3070405@conducive.net> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:55:00 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <47375D78.4040309@chuckr.org> <20071112005620.GA87383@cdnetworks.co.kr> <4737BCC3.5030509@chuckr.org> <20071112044340.GC87383@cdnetworks.co.kr> <4738B818.2070204@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <4738B818.2070204@chuckr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: nfe internet problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:55:49 -0000 Chuck Robey wrote: *snip* > > I have one other odd problem, it's that no probe messages whatever print > during booting, so I had to pick up the demsg later on. The last thing > I see during booting is the first spinner character, usually "|", and > the next thing I see is "Login;", nothing inbetween whatever. Any idea > why my booting has gone totally silent on me? Not so odd. This is the way we set up servers. '-h' for headless. Now - the question is *why* IF/AS/WHEN you have no such setting. My guess is BIOS reporting one thing, probe another w/r finding a VGA it is allowed to use for console. What the probe 'discovers' doen't go active until it has finished - but the first two loader stages simply 'assume' console will be dealt with somehow, so their output does show up - boot device choice, spinner and such are still BIOS turf. Bill