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From: mwilley@fiw206.intel.com (Mark Willey - PCD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: syscons kernel won't boot NetBSD 0.9 -- Help?
Date: 22 Feb 1994 03:36:13 GMT
Organization: Intel
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kbujd$e5q@inews.intel.com>
References: <baier.2.000933A6@risc1.ccso.cim.ch>
Reply-To: mwilley@fiw206.intel.com (Mark Willey - PCD)
NNTP-Posting-Host: fiw206.intel.com
Keywords: syscons NetBSD 0.9

All,
  I've compiled a kernel for my NetBSD machine with the syscons 1.2
console driver in it.  Unfortunatly, when I boot with it, the
screen (I guess from the boot block) shows the different segments
of the kernel (text, data, bss, dec, hex) and then, shows no more
on the screen.  It runs the disk for a while, like it is loading
(just like loading, actually) and then suddenly reboots.  I have the
/etc/ttys /dev/* configs, etc correct.  Does anyone think they know
what might be happening?  (BTW, the pccons kernel boots fine, same
configuration...)  Thanks!  I thought it was that the console driver
in the kernel takes over after it's loaded, and then is confused
somehow, so it boots all the way to the login, but reboots when it
can't get input from the console.  (ttyv0)

Mark

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Mark Willey                                                 916-356-1024
Intel Corporation, FM2-48                       mwilley@pcocd2.intel.com
1900 Prairie City Rd, Folsom, CA 95630	  I speak for myself, not Intel.
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