On 04-Jan-02 Mikhail Teterin wrote: >> Are your loader and 4th files in sync? There was a change to the 4th >> scripts that I thought I sent a heads up about. > > The hints did not change since forever: > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2030 Feb 10 2001 device.hints > > Everything else seems fresh: > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7721 Jan 3 20:34 loader.4th > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 35097 Jan 3 20:34 support.4th > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 174080 Jan 3 20:34 pxeboot > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 176128 Jan 3 20:34 liloboot > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 20:34 defaults > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 172032 Jan 3 20:34 loader > >> Anyways, do this to get the error message: go into >> /sys/boot/i386/loader, edit main.c, and change the exit() function to >> do a while(1); loop before callign __exit(). Compile a new loader and >> install it and then see what message you get. > > Mmm, Ok... Next time I reboot, I'll post the results... Thanks! > >> You don't have a seiral console, you have _no_ kernel console. :) >> Since you are booting from boot2 and not the loader, your hints aren't >> getting loaded, so you aren't getting a kernel console. > > There was time, when direct booting of the kernel was working...
Hints used to be statically compiled in by default sort of but on longer are. They haven't been for quite some time. Direct booting works great if you compiler your hints using "hints foo.hints" in your kernel config file. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
