Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:19:39 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= <askbill@conducive.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfe internet problems Message-ID: <4738C36B.9090302@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <4738BDA4.3070405@conducive.net> References: <47375D78.4040309@chuckr.org> <20071112005620.GA87383@cdnetworks.co.kr> <4737BCC3.5030509@chuckr.org> <20071112044340.GC87383@cdnetworks.co.kr> <4738B818.2070204@chuckr.org> <4738BDA4.3070405@conducive.net>
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韓家標 Bill Hacker wrote: > 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. > Hmm I haven't given as muich care to my linker.hints file as I could. I think I will experiment with giving it, at least, the correct stuff for the console, that might give me the probe messages back. Good hint, I think this one's likely to fix the probing/printing problem, but what about the problem with my nfe ports? If I activate them with ifconfig, it locks up my computer, that's kind of a mean way to react ... > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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