From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 18 20:57: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat204.200.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.204.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB9E37BB4E for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00413; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:55:31 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:55:31 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Bosko Milekic Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FOLLOWING config changes? : Kernel profiling support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ya know, I never thought about checkign /var/log/messages on mine to see if it was, in fact, booting (I thought it was, it sounded like it was, but I couldn't think of a way to check) ... Using kernel sources up-to-date as of a few hours ago, I've tried to pare my optimzatins down to a simple '-O -pipe', and I'm getting the same thing as you, where I effectively get: Booting kernel ... \ on my screen, and that's the end of it. Looking at /var/log/messages, it looks like I am getting a full reboot happening, right down to initializing 'vmmon', but nothing to my screen. I've been trying to follow the -current list to see if any ideas/solutions pop up, but the only things I've noticed so far have revolved around optimization issues, but its more then possible that I missed a message ... My last good kernel, that boot'd fine, is: @(#)FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Jun 14 01:03:00 ADT 2000 With every other one since resulting in the above ... On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > I've recently cleaned up and updated my sources, saving some changes > I made elsewhere. I performed a buildworld, installworld, etc. yesterday > night with no problems. > > When I rebuilt my kernel, after having collected the appropriate hints > for the system and modified my kernel configuration file appropriately, I > had some trouble booting it. The loader would load the kernel into memory > but when it was time to `boot' it, I was not able to see anything on the > console, this includes the initial copyright message. Furthermore, my > keyboard was unresponsive. However, I could tell that the kernel was > booting nonetheless (even though I could not see it), judging by the hard > disk drives' activity (and upon checking /var/log/messages after I booted > with my previously saved kernel). > > I then decided to rebuild the kernel with the hints statically compiled > in, and this worked fine, and the kernel booted properly. Note that I did > not use any notable optimisation flag during the build, and that this is > all on i386 architecture. > > However, I decided to build a kernel with profiling support this morning > (config -p KERNEL, etc.), and I left the hints compiled in statically. > The kernel built fine, but when it came time to boot it, again, no > response from keyboard, nothing at the console. This time though, the > kernel wasn't even booting. > > Has anybody noticed/tried this recently? Am I forgetting something? > > Cheers, > Bosko. > > -- > Bosko Milekic * Voice/Mobile: 514.865.7738 * Pager: 514.921.0237 > bmilekic@technokratis.com * http://www.technokratis.com/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message