Re: stange console problem

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Wemm
Chad David wrote: > Problem solved. > > cp GENERIC.hints DEBUG.hints > > Without them it isn't very happy... did I miss this as a requirement > somewhere, or is my hardware/timing just a little funky? Yes, you were not reading the commit messages or UPDATING or -current. You should have a /boot/

Re: stange console problem

2001-01-30 Thread Chad David
Problem solved. cp GENERIC.hints DEBUG.hints Without them it isn't very happy... did I miss this as a requirement somewhere, or is my hardware/timing just a little funky? Chad On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > > >None of this has any bearing on the proble

Re: stange console problem

2001-01-30 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
>None of this has any bearing on the problem, which was caused by a bug >in gensetdefs.pl. Please update your source tree and rebuild your >kernel. Eek. I had the gensetdefs.pl problem too, but my machine just seemed to lock. He says his machine does go on running. I have been pretty tied up l

Re: stange console problem

2001-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried removing the 'makeoptions' line and using 'config -g > ' instead? > [...] > Also, when you copy the GENERIC file to another name, do you update the > ident line? None of this has any bearing on the problem, which was caused by

Re: stange console problem

2001-01-30 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
> >If I copy GENERIC to DEBUG and recompile the kernel it will not >boot properly copy the file back to GENERIC and everything >seems fine? > >I have searched the archives and read UPDATING, but nothing jumps >out at me. > >Does anybody have any idea where I could look next? > >Chad > >On Sun

Re: stange console problem

2001-01-29 Thread Chad David
In reply to my own post (which nobody has replied to, perhaps because I never actually phrased a question :-) )... I have found that if the kernel config file is named GENERIC, it will boot just fine; otherwise, I loose the console. I have done a cvsup tonight as well as a make world and many di

stange console problem

2001-01-28 Thread Chad David
On a current from last Sunday I recompiled a new kernel with just makeoptions DEBUG=-g and options DDB added to GENERIC and when I boot I see the first few spins of the loader booting the kernel and then all video output stops. After the boot finishs I get a login prompt but no keyboard response