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From: pmh@ardbeg.islay.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5: psm device broken?
Date: 8 Sep 1996 11:12:14 GMT
Organization: Patrick M. Hausen - private site
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Hi!
Eric J. Rossin (ejr@nlc.com) wrote:
: Hi all!
: I just upgraded from 2.1 -> 2.1.5 (from CDROM). I used the "upgrade"
: feature, which went smoothly, merged my /etc changes, then rebooted
: (still with the GENERIC kernel); all was well (I upgraded only the
: binaries, docs and kernel source).
: I then rebuilt my kernel using my 2.1 config file (which, is essentially
: GENERIC without some drivers and with the psm driver enabled). This
: time, after what appeared to be a normal re-boot, the keyboard was
: dead.I didn't have the ability to remotely log in to see if the OS was
: still running, but there were no messages in /var/log/messages to
: believe it wasn't.
Did you insert the line for the psm driver _after_ the console driver?
If not, that might be the cause of your hangs.
Paddy
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Patrick M. Hausen Gerwigstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe pmh@islay.sub.org
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