On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:19:39PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > ùÛÊ«øö 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 ... > It seems that you have MCP55 and the hardware is known to work without issues. In order to narrow down the issue I have to know where it locks up. When the system was locked up would you get a dump and show me the backtrace info? See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html for more information. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeonReceived on Mon Nov 12 2007 - 23:17:30 UTC
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