From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Dec 17 11:52:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D629937B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from tartarus.telenet-ops.be (tartarus.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162BE43E4A for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:52:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tartarus.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 53AE5DBB92 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:50:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from fortuna.home.paeps.cx (D5768746.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.135.70]) by tartarus.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A012CDCFBE for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:50:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from juno.home.paeps.cx (juno [10.0.0.2]) by fortuna.home.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB57B4E4 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:49:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by juno.home.paeps.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 788641CD; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:49:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:49:59 +0100 From: Philip Paeps To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not booting automaticall Message-ID: <20021217194959.GH741@juno.home.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021217173316.GA741@juno.home.paeps.cx> <15871.26640.586523.580903@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15871.26640.586523.580903@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-PGP-Fingerprint: FA74 3C27 91A6 79D5 F6D3 FC53 BF4B D0E6 049D B879 X-Message-Flag: Get yourself a real mail client. Try Mutt: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-12-17 13:08:16 (-0500), Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Philip Paeps writes: > > Then it just sits there until I hit enter, and then loads the loader and the > > kernel and everything works happily. > > > > Any ideas on how to get this to work automatically again? > > OK, next guess.. :-) > So, I think that there may be some line noise on your serial console > line or keyboard cable which is interrupting the boot process. The funny thing is that it was working :-/ I think I did something silly, but I did so many things I can't quite remember what the silly thing was :-) I tried rewriting the bootblocks on the disk (disklabel -B da0), but that didn't seem to fix it either. > People who've trashed their /boot/loader would probably pay money for such a > feature ;) I can believe that :-) - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't CC me, I am philip@paeps.cx subscribed to the list. Real programmers argue with the systems analyst as a matter of principle. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message