Re: printing boot probe messages

2008-01-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:13:53PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> during booting is to call out a verbose boot. If I do that, then the boot >> messages DO print during booting, and examination afterwards shows a big >> file (~ 60K

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:13:53PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >during booting is to call out a verbose boot. If I do that, then the boot >messages DO print during booting, and examination afterwards shows a big >file (~ 60K in size). This happens if I use /boot.config==-v, or if I >enter option #5

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:58:32PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> booting. If I stick "-v" in /boot.config, then when the kernel probes, all >> the probes are verbose. Stuff like my HDaudio card print incredibly >> verbose listing

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:34:05PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >astonishment (and embarrassment) others have replied using that ridiculous >nomenclature "Print#1 and Print#2". Doesn't that seem more than a little >ridiculous to you? The only distinction the kernel makes is between "verbose boot" an

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:42:38PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: >> If you do not see any boot messages at all, then my guess is that you >> probably have messed around with /boot/device.hints (or compiled in a hints >> file in t

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sorry, Dag, but I am myself having problem describing it. I have been > asking for names, but while I get some guesses about the loss of printing, > they haven't given me names to use. I see two items that I can get, when > booting. If I stick "-v" i

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:58:32PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >booting. If I stick "-v" in /boot.config, then when the kernel probes, all >the probes are verbose. Stuff like my HDaudio card print incredibly >verbose listings. OK, that's what I will call here Print#1 > >The other thing is what I c

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:42:38PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > If you do not see any boot messages at all, then my guess is that you > probably have messed around with /boot/device.hints (or compiled in a hints > file in the kernel) and removed or disabled the hints for the video > adapter/system

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:58:32PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Anyhow, in the midst of all the screwing around, I now find that, on the > >> Ascii-graphics FreeBSD loader

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyhow, in the midst of all the screwing around, I now find that, on the >> Ascii-graphics FreeBSD loader UI, if I choose Option #5 (verbose loading) >> then the printing of the re

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyhow, in the midst of all the screwing around, I now find that, on the > Ascii-graphics FreeBSD loader UI, if I choose Option #5 (verbose loading) > then the printing of the regular probe messages starts back up (this is NOT > the verbose probe messages,

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-27 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As far as the hints files go, I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't >> understand the difference between the hints file that I name (APRIL.hints) >> in my config file, and the devi

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as the hints files go, I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't > understand the difference between the hints file that I name (APRIL.hints) > in my config file, and the device.hints in the man page of that name. OK, so you customized your device hints

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:12:49PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >>> Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've lost the printing of all of th

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> 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

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-24 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:12:49PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you > >> are > >> booting yoiur mach

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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. Whe

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 02:19:30PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I think it would be benefitial to see your kernel configuration, the > contents of /boot/loader.conf, and /boot.config if you have one. I forgot another one: /boot/device.hints. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:49:41PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > TCSH-april:root:/home/chuckr:#105-12:23>conscontrol > Configured: dcons > Available: dcons,gdb > Muting: off > > If you use the "list" parameter to conscontrol, the same printout results. I > *think* you might be saying that I sh

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > 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 > usi

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-22 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:33:52PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> I've lost the printing of all of

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you are >> booting yoiur machine (you kno

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-20 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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

printing boot probe messages

2007-12-20 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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