Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:13:19 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-embedded@psconsult.nl>, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange nanobsd issue Message-ID: <200901030213.n032DNCc093437@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090102215614.GA12372@psconsult.nl> References: <7.1.0.9.0.20070704124538.26bfe960@sentex.net> <200901021519.n02FJn2E090929@lava.sentex.ca> <20090102215614.GA12372@psconsult.nl>
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At 04:56 PM 1/2/2009, Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> >>
> >> having nullconsole doesnt seem to matter any. The device.hints
> >> modification seems to be the single thing that effects this behavior.
>
>Apparently something goes wrong during /etc/rc processing if there's
>no console at all. Having a dcons_load="YES" in loader.conf creates
>a console even if there's no hardware attached to it. I think that
>boot_multicons="YES" can even be omitted here.
>
>Could you please do one more test? Add rc_debug="YES" to rc.conf
>and take boot_multicons="YES" and dcons_load="YES" out of loader.conf.
>This should give you two /etc and two /var mounts again. Then post the
>output of dmesg -a as it should reveal when and probably also why these
>filesystems get mounted twice.
Hi,
You are right about having just the dcons. Thats all that is
needed. In terms of dmesg -a, it doesnt haven anything when I dont
have a console of some sort defined :(
Is there any other way to get rc to save its output elsewhere ?
---Mike
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