From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 18 19:52:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DBB16A417 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:52:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from angrywolf@flashmail.com) Received: from a.relay.invitel.net (a.relay.invitel.net [62.77.203.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5755913C461 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:52:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from angrywolf@flashmail.com) Received: from mail.invitel.hu (mail.vnet.hu [213.163.59.4]) by a.relay.invitel.net (Invitel Core SMTP Transmitter) with ESMTP id DE75611106E for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:51:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from 555555.no-ip.org ([87.97.27.183]) by mail.invitel.hu (Invitel Messaging Server) with ESMTPA id <0JRP00JHIWI9GCO0@invitel.hu> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:51:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by 555555.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 49E668FCAE; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:51:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from gep7.555555.no-ip.org (gep7 [172.16.0.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by 555555.no-ip.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5E68FCAE for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:47:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:47:16 +0100 From: AngryWolf In-reply-to: <20071118190159.GA12962@tetsuo.karasik.eu.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <200711182047.16811.angrywolf@flashmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20071118190159.GA12962@tetsuo.karasik.eu.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Subject: Re: No kernel messages displayed during boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:52:04 -0000 Hi, I had the exact same problem after I upgraded to 7.0-BETA2, and the problem seemed to be that I forgot to `make delete-old' and `make delete-old-libs'. For details, see thread 'No boot messages after upgrading to 7.0-BETA2'. -- AngryWolf angrywolf@flashmail.com On Sunday 18 November 2007 20.01.59 Dmitry Karasik wrote: > Hello, > > My 6.2-STABLE crashed today, and when I rebooted it, a very strange effect > appeared: from the second the kernel took over, immediately after loading > all .ko files, no text was printed in the console. The system booted > though, and the next text was printed to the console was the login prompt. > The screen didn't went blank, just all kernel messages and output of > /etc/rc* wasn't there -- all was printed on the screen was FreeBSD boot > menu, and login prompt. > > I've re-run 'make installworld' and 'make installkernel' (as I had > leftovers from recent buildworld), - didn't help. I've tried to power down > the machine (suspecied video card trouble), I've resetted BIOS, I've even > disabled com port in BIOS (because the behavior looks like booting on > serial console) -- nothing, absolutely nothing changes it. > > When I tried to boot in single-user mode, the prompt was never displayed at > all, which fact indeed makes me think alogn the path of the wrong boot > console. I've removed /boot/loader.conf, and double-checked that > /boot.config isn't present - didn't help. > > My question is therefore, what cause of this effect might be? Or, if noone > would be able to answer this, how I would print messages from kernel (I'd > recompile it for that purpose) to identify which device it picked up for > console IO -- and especially, how I print that either to a file, or > directly to /dev/console?