Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:36:33 -0400 From: David Kamholz <davekam@pobox.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org> Cc: <dcs@freebsd.org>, <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: unable to boot -c Message-ID: <B7B0FA80.30ED%davekam@pobox.com>
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Hello,
I'm having what seems to be, by all accounts, a rather strange problem. I'm
new to FreeBSD, so forgive me if this has been answered somewhere before,
but I can't find any reference to it. Basically, what happens is that when I
boot with boot -c, I get an endless stream of what looks like config>
config> config> wrapping around the screen. There are no returns inserted
and it scrolls by extremely quickly -- at first I just thought it was
garbage. But when you press a key it looks like it's also printed, and it
makes it somehow easier to read so I noticed it was probably config>.
However, I haven't found any way to get past this and boot normally, so I
just reboot.
This problem occurs identically with the 4.3 boot disks, 4.4rc1 boot disks,
and 4.3 cdrom. It also occurs with a kernel a built from the 4.3 install,
and with one cvsup'd to -stable. The setting of VISUAL_USERCONFIG does not
make a difference. The one thing in common with all these setups seems to be
the hardware. However, it's nothing too unusual, and I might add that I've
run linux on it for over a year with no problems. I have a Matsonic 7192SM
motherboard. This is a slot1/socket370 board with VIA 82Cxxx chipset. I have
a Celeron 433 on it. Cards are ATI All-in-wonder Pro (Mach64), 3Com 905B,
Promise Ultra100, and RealTek 8019 (NE2000 compatible). All are PCI except
the RealTek. FreeBSD boots from the onboard IDE controller, not the Promise
card (it does, however, recognize the Promise controller and allows me to
access the drives on it fine).
I've included the config file used to build the kernel below. Let me know if
any other info would be useful. Help is much appreciated... I was just
barely able to get my RealTek card usable thanks to someone online sending
me their kernel.conf.
Regards,
Dave
machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident SCHCOMP
maxusers 32
#makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols
#options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation
options INET #InterNETworking
#options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols
options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
options EXT2FS
options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
#options MFS #Memory Filesystem
#options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
#options NFS #Network Filesystem
#options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS required
options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
#options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem
#options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required
options PROCFS #Process filesystem
options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
#options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor
options INTRO_USERCONFIG
options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor
options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
# To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
#options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
#options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
device isa
device eisa
device pci
# Floppy drives
device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
# ATA and ATAPI devices
#device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
#device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
#device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
#device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12
device vga0 at isa?
# splash screen/screen saver
pseudo-device splash
# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100
# Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver
#device vt0 at isa?
#options XSERVER # support for X server on a vt console
#options FAT_CURSOR # start with block cursor
# If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the PCVT
lines
#options PCVT_SCANSET=2 # IBM keyboards are non-std
# Floating point support - do not disable.
device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13
# Serial (COM) ports
device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
#device sio2 at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
#device sio3 at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9
# Parallel port
#device ppc0 at isa? irq 7
#device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
#device lpt # Printer
#device plip # TCP/IP over parallel
#device ppi # Parallel port interface device
#device vpo # Requires scbus and da
# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device miibus # MII bus support
device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')
# ISA Ethernet NICs.
device ed0 at isa? port 0x300
# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
pseudo-device loop # Network loopback
pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support
#pseudo-device sl 1 # Kernel SLIP
#pseudo-device ppp 1 # Kernel PPP
#pseudo-device tun # Packet tunnel.
pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
#pseudo-device md # Memory "disks"
#pseudo-device gif 4 # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
#pseudo-device faith 1 # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
# The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter
# internet firewalling and filtering options
options IPFIREWALL #firewall
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #print information about
# dropped packets
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100 #limit verbosity
options IPDIVERT
options RANDOM_IP_ID
options ICMP_BANDLIM
# USB support
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
#device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device usb # USB Bus (required)
device ugen # Generic
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
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