On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:54:22AM -0400, jean-philippe luiggi wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> As usual, "Thanks a lot" for help guys.
> You got it, the "boot.conf" was here but dunno if I understand where he
> comes from.
>
> The process I run this morning was :
>
> "boot bsd.rd"
> choose mirror
> process us usal (I can't remember seeing something that's console related).
> reboot then problem...
What I suspect happened is the following: that boot.conf was there all
the time. But until recently, serial console was only made possible on
systems with at least one standard serial port according to the bios.
But now that restriction has been lifted, to allow puc(4) serial cards
to work as a console. So now your "sleeping" boot.conf kicked in.
-Otto
>
> By the way, you rock and I know why I use this system for a so long time.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Jean-Philippe.
>
>
> 2012/6/19 Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]>
>
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:52:24AM -0400, jean-philippe luiggi wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just updated my install this morning using the last snapshot
> > > (20120618) for i386 but now the laptop (thinkpad x41) can't boot and get
> > > stuck
> > > before the first prompt.
> > >
> > > Last message I see is "switching console to com0".
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > Jean-Philippe.
> >
> > It's probably not stuck, it's using com0 as console. Check your
> > /etc/boot.conf
> > To do that, boot while holding the cntrl key. It will use an
> > all-default boot setup, i.e. using a glass console on a i386.
> >
> > -Otto
