On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:33:52PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > -----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.
dcons has no output as such, it depends on further support. dcons for example allows console access over firewire. You likely want consolectl as your configured console device. I can just repeat myself: you must have missing some device hints, since the device as such works fine but is not used as console. See if conscontrol lists consolectl as available console devices, if not than you are surely missing a hint if yes then you have explicitly configured you console to be on dcons. > 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]" -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
