From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 21 15:26:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23ADE37B401 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0LNTNh74689; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:29:22 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Donald J . Maddox" Cc: Alex Zepeda , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups Message-ID: <20010121152922.C74407@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <20010121023238.S69199@canonware.com> <20010121025457.A396@zippy.pacbell.net> <20010121060520.A396@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+nBD6E3TurpgldQp" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010121060520.A396@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>; from dmaddox@sc.rr.com on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:05:20AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --+nBD6E3TurpgldQp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:05:20AM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > It may have absolutely nothing to do with either of these cases, but > I found out the hard way recently that booting with no device.hints > in /boot will exhibit symptoms that appear identical to this. Is it > possible that something is trashing the device list, or not initializing > it properly at kernel load time? This is a different problem. If you don't have device hints available at boot (statically compiled into the kernel or loaded from /boot) then the console driver doesn't get its hints, and doesn't work in the manner you describe. Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --+nBD6E3TurpgldQp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6a3DSWry0BWjoQKURAhB0AKD7+sQf3BxQ+EWyxKrXwYP3T/L+OgCdG8p5 GFiZCSZbVtTaz3COt5bxklQ= =wR1o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+nBD6E3TurpgldQp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message