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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
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Subject: Re: printing boot probe messages
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Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> writes:
> I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you=
 are
> booting yoiur machine (you know, mostly probe messages.  I used to see th=
em on
> this box. When I made my first kernel, I had begun (obviously, as we all =
do)
> with GENERIC as a base, but changing the first loaders.hints and the kern=
el,
> that's the last I saw of booting messages.

You say something stopped working after you fiddled with some config
files, but you don't show us those config files nor even tell us *which*
config files you modified in terms that we can understand (there is no
such thing as loader.hints).

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no