Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 07:38:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Carl Harris <ceharris@cslab.vt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pcvt on boot diskette Message-ID: <199508161138.HAA24852@husky.cslab.vt.edu>
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Jordan's help in puzzling out the steps required to build a custom release did the trick -- I now have a 2.0.5 release with all the device support we need for our site. Thanks, much, Jordan! Now on to the point of this message... I'm having difficulty making a boot diskette that uses the pcvt console driver (using scanset 2 for our laptops). Actually, making the diskette was no problem -- booting from it is a different story. The kernel loads normally, but when it finishes decompressing and prints "done", the machine immediately reboots. If I go back into my CHROOTDIR, and change the config to use the sc console device and run another 'make floppies', it works just fine. I would suspect it was just something flaky about our laptops (Thinkpad 755C), but the same results occur on desktop machines. Has anyone else seen this behavior? -- Carl Harris Systems Engineer Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech ceharris@cs.vt.edu P.S. I should also note that I saw a post from someone in the ...freebsd.misc newsgroup group who had made a boot floppy for the Thinkpad available via ftp. I got that floppy image and tried it, and it does in fact work. However, it won't do for my needs since it was from a recent snapshot (i.e. not 2.0.5-R).
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