Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:29:08 -0600 From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) To: Carl Harris <ceharris@cslab.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt on boot diskette Message-ID: <199508161529.JAA11135@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199508161138.HAA24852@husky.cslab.vt.edu> References: <199508161138.HAA24852@husky.cslab.vt.edu>
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> I'm having difficulty making a boot diskette that uses the pcvt > console driver (using scanset 2 for our laptops). Actually, making > the diskette was no problem -- booting from it is a different story. > The kernel loads normally, but when it finishes decompressing and > prints "done", the machine immediately reboots. If I go back into > my CHROOTDIR, and change the config to use the sc console device > and run another 'make floppies', it works just fine. > I have seen this here, but I've also got a boot floppy which seems to work. It's available at: ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming/nate/TPAD.flp. I've now also got a fixit floppy which I use to install the kernel on the system as well, since the kernel that's installed from the normal system is a syscons kernel which is useless. > I would suspect it was just something flaky about our laptops (Thinkpad > 755C), but the same results occur on desktop machines. There may be some sort of corruption that somehow the pcvt kernel is hitting. > P.S. I should also note that I saw a post from someone in the > ...freebsd.misc newsgroup group who had made a boot floppy for the > Thinkpad available via ftp. I got that floppy image and tried it, and > it does in fact work. However, it won't do for my needs since it was > from a recent snapshot (i.e. not 2.0.5-R). Ah, sorry. That was me. I can make a ThinkPad floppy using a kernel from the recent snap if need be, but it will contain the sysinstall stuff from 2.0.5. Nate
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