Re: printing boot probe messages

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Bernd Walter wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
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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.

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