From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 20:11:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49981106566C for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:11:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@reidel.info) Received: from smtprelay02.ispgateway.de (smtprelay02.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 047F48FC19 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@reidel.info) Received: from [82.135.4.244] (helo=karm.dyndns.org) by smtprelay02.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JVBP7-0004vI-Ne for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:00:25 +0100 Received: from [192.168.43.16] (helo=Shari.local) by karm.dyndns.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JVBPC-000Nm7-Ge for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:00:30 +0100 Message-ID: <47C86444.4070807@reidel.info> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:00:04 +0100 From: Mark Reidel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 793055 Subject: Unable to boot without VGA-card X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:11:10 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list, 2 days ago, I upgraded my router from 6.3 to 7-PRERELEASE, because I wanted journaling UFS. This all worked well, because I have two hard disks. So I created a journaling ad1s1a.journal and copied all the stuff. This PC doesn't have VGA-card, no slots are free. When the copying finished, I saw that 7.0 was released, upgraded and rsynced the diffs to my journaled partition. Then I added vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:ufs/backup" to /boot/loader.conf on ad0s1a, so the kernel comes from ad0s1a and the userland from ad1s1a.journal (aka ufs/backup). Then I rebooted and the machine hung. Expecting to have done something wrong, I put in my workstation's VGA-card, booted and it simply worked as expected. As soon as I remove my VGA-card, the machine doesn't boot anymore. The kdb-LEDs get initialized, the HD shows an activity-splash and then nothing. I figure it must boot the kernel and then have problems in the userland. But neither entering return for /bin/sh and then fastboot, nor entering ufs:ad0s1a did something, so it's not waiting for one of those inputs. I don't have null-modem-cable available and setting the system to boot from sio also hangs it, so I'm really stuck here. Does anybody have any idea what else I could try? Regards, - Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkfIZEQACgkQwceHY2QbsCgt6wCg3uHEWBJ1jN164F/zoaj9XyG7 UdYAniMshRiz9ZkwJyR/6cDd1BJxVtZi =cAbs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----