From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 21:21:21 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 0D04316A417 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:21:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD83913C4B2 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:21:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 17989 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2007 21:21:08 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Nov 2007 21:21:08 -0000 Message-ID: <4738C36B.9090302@chuckr.org> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:19:39 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= 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> In-Reply-To: <4738BDA4.3070405@conducive.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 21:21:21 -0000 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"