韓家標 Bill Hacker wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > *snip* >> >> I have one other odd problem, it's that no probe messages whatever >> print during booting, so I had to pick up the demsg later on. The >> last thing I see during booting is the first spinner character, >> usually "|", and the next thing I see is "Login;", nothing inbetween >> whatever. Any idea why my booting has gone totally silent on me? > > Not so odd. This is the way we set up servers. '-h' for headless. > > Now - the question is *why* IF/AS/WHEN you have no such setting. > > My guess is BIOS reporting one thing, probe another w/r finding a VGA it > is allowed to use for console. > > What the probe 'discovers' doen't go active until it has finished - but > the first two loader stages simply 'assume' console will be dealt with > somehow, so their output does show up - boot device choice, spinner and > such are still BIOS turf. > Hmm I haven't given as muich care to my linker.hints file as I could. I think I will experiment with giving it, at least, the correct stuff for the console, that might give me the probe messages back. Good hint, I think this one's likely to fix the probing/printing problem, but what about the problem with my nfe ports? If I activate them with ifconfig, it locks up my computer, that's kind of a mean way to react ... > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Mon Nov 12 2007 - 20:21:21 UTC
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