From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 4:36:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from demai05.mw.mediaone.net (demai05.mw.mediaone.net [24.131.1.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C6C37B401; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davekam@pobox.com) Received: from [192.168.100.5] (nic-131-c228-153.mw.mediaone.net [24.131.228.153]) by demai05.mw.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7SBaXY18998; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:36:33 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:36:33 -0400 Subject: unable to boot -c From: David Kamholz To: , Cc: , Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message