On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:45:15PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 24-Apr-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:21:17PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> On 24-Apr-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >> > On 5.x, loader(8) compiled with -DNOFORTH, results in > >> > a system without a console. This does not affect the > >> > RELENG_4. > >> > > >> > Can someone who knows this code please look into it? > >> > >> No kernel console or no loader console? The usual problem with > >> no kernel console on 5.x is lack of device.hints. > >> > > No kernel console. The device.hints, it's there under /boot; > > I only reinstalled loader(8) with -DNOFORTH, and this gave me > > "no console" behavior. Can you try it locally? > > Since device.hints is read in by Forth code, I wouldn't be > surprised if it didn't work. When you break into the 10 > second countdown, do you have any hints set in the loader > environment? > Yes, figured this out by myself already. I've ended up uncommenting the "hints" line in GENERIC config, everything is OK now, and bzip2(1) also works, modulo the memory restrictions -- only level 1 bzipping works that requires ~250K of memory. John, is there a way to fix btx/loader/whatever so that heap memory is not limited to 640K? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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