Hi! I have ASUS P7H55 (no integrated video) motherboard that boots FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE just fine even when I do not plug any video card in its PCIEx16 slot. System boots and works just fine without video and keyboard but with default /boot/device.hints only.
It does NOT boot if I make the change: --- /boot/device.hints.orig 2011-02-15 15:58:11.000000000 +0600 +++ /boot/device.hints 2011-02-15 15:58:17.000000000 +0600 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ hint.apm.0.flags="0x20" hint.uart.0.at="isa" hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" -hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" +hint.uart.0.flags="0x0" hint.uart.0.irq="4" hint.uart.1.at="isa" hint.uart.1.port="0x2F8" If I power the box down thereafter, insert video card and boot it again, it boots and I see it did not mount root file system, it's clean. Normally it takes a munute to boot this system and I waited for hours to test. It does not boot without video card if I additionally write "-m" (without quotes) to /boot.config and "console=nullconsole" to /boot/loader.conf Is it supposed behavour? Motivation: I need the only PCIEx16 slot for Intel dualport gigabit ethernet network adapter and want to have common NanoBSD image for boxes like this and other boxes having IPMI card and want to have hint.uart.2.flags="0x10" in /boot/loader.conf Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
