-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you are >> booting yoiur machine (you know, mostly probe messages. I used to see them >> on >> this box. When I made my first kernel, I had begun (obviously, as we all do) >> with GENERIC as a base, but changing the first loaders.hints and the kernel, >> that's the last I saw of booting messages. >> >> To illustrate what I *do* see, I watch the first character of that little >> spiller, but only the very first char, because that's when it stops working, >> right after sicking the first char. Thbe nest thing I see, maybe 30 seconds >> later, is a Login: request. > > Sounds like your console is configured to a different device. > Maybe it is configured to serial while you are waiting on vga. > >> Any notion what I could do to get my booting messages back? > > Switch the console to the device you are looking at. > You can easily check the configured console by running conscontrol. > Maybe you've lost the device hint for your console device to flag > it as beeing a possible console candidate.
OK, when I run conscontrol, it tells me I am using the dcons console. I looked at the man page for concontrol (and I've been gone from FreeBSD so long, I wasn't even awaare of conscontrol at all) and it informed me I am using the dcons device. I am not aware of any others, I was hoping that if there were such, there would be references to them in either the dcons or conscontrol man pages, but no lock. Is dcons good enough? You understand I would be ecstatic if it wasn't 9and if I could set it to something else, and thereby get my booting messages back.) I checked my kernel config file, it does indeed list the dcons device. Have any other ideas, I'm really listening here. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHbIWgz62J6PPcoOkRAigoAJ99PTNEEeK8LsBEXAtQS8Sc4tan2ACdESgM oBKqPU4TripnypwtKckxt6A= =r7GD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"