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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 950210-SNAP: PCVT/syscons problem
Date: 13 Feb 95 19:06:52 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <3hnq57$rt3@gate.sinica.edu.tw> lim@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Carmay Lim) writes:

>    I downloaded just the kernel srcdist for the 950210 snapshot and
>wanted to try out the PCVT consoles (VT-220 emulation on ttyv*).  I
>took my previous 2.1-dev /usr/src/i386/conf/MYKERNEL config file and
>added in the two lines pertaining to PCVT.  Recompiled fine, installed
>fine.  When I rebooted, the kernel boot messages began appearing as
>white on red text!

Welcome to pcvt! :-) Yes, white on red is the pcvt way of displaying 
kernel message output, have a look at pcvt_conf.h to see how to change
that if you don't like it.

>This was alarming enough, but it seemed to proceed
>through the boot sequence without any problems.  Then it hit some sort
>of kernel panic (mention of a "Supervisor page"?) and I was forced to
>reboot.

I've heard of this problem, but have no solution available, sorry!

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
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