Hi, I am keeping in sync with 6-Stable every now and then. At present I have a problem with the pause timer of the boot loader. In /boot/loader.conf I have: autoboot_delay="3" and as soon as the pause timer is supposed to count down, it kind of hangs; actually, the cursor seems to jump as if the number "3" is continuously printed instead of a countdown. This 'hang' continues until I hit the return key, after which the boot process continues as usual. When I remove the delay line in loader.conf, then the loader displays a pause timer of "10", but actually *immediately* continues as if the pause timer is zero (so no delay at all). I believe there's something wrong with the boot loader in 6.1-Prerelease. Or has my PC become buggy? Any idea what's the problem? Anybody else sees this? Regards, Rob. ------------------------------------- /boot/loader.conf has following lines: autoboot_delay="3" # 3 seconds pause timer if_rl_load="YES" # PCI Ethernet random_load="YES" # Pseudo device for SSH sio_load="YES" # Serial (COM) ports --------------------- /boot.config has this: -D -------------------------------- kernel config file has following: machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident MYKERNEL options SCHED_4BSD options INET options INET6 options FFS options SOFTUPDATES options UFS_ACL options UFS_DIRHASH options COMPAT_43 options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV device pci device ata device atadisk options ATA_STATIC_ID device scbus device da device pass device atkbdc device atkbd device psm device vga device splash device sc device pmtimer device loop device ether device pty device md device bpf options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN options DEVICE_POLLING options HZ=1000 ----------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Rob wrote:> > When I remove the delay line in loader.conf, then > the loader displays a pause timer of "10", but > actually *immediately* continues as if the pause > timer is zero (so no delay at all). >i have not observed this, but I don't alter the boot delay time.
Rob wrote:> Hi, > > I am keeping in sync with 6-Stable every now and > then. At present I have a problem with the pause > timer of the boot loader. In /boot/loader.conf I > have: > > autoboot_delay="3" > > and as soon as the pause timer is supposed to count > down, it kind of hangs; actually, the cursor seems > to jump as if the number "3" is continuously printed > instead of a countdown. This 'hang' continues until > I hit the return key, after which the boot process > continues as usual. > > When I remove the delay line in loader.conf, then > the loader displays a pause timer of "10", but > actually *immediately* continues as if the pause > timer is zero (so no delay at all). > > I believe there's something wrong with the boot > loader in 6.1-Prerelease. Or has my PC become buggy? > > Any idea what's the problem? > Anybody else sees this?Just for the record: I have found the problem and reply my own solution to the problem here: I had changed my /boot.config from "-P" to "-D" and I checked the boot-up on the video console (not serial). Meanwhile the serial port was connected to a data acquisition equipement, which obviously confused the boot-up communication. This, however, I did not realize while watching the peculiar boot-up on the console. My conclusion: do not use "-D" in /boot.config, unless the serial port is either not connected, or connected to a remote terminal. Using "-P" here is safer. Regards, Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com