No output from Kernel Booting Up or /dev/console

Thu Nov 18 16:56:55 PST 2004

The is on a Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook (celeron 2.3Ghz) running FreeBSD
5.3R. When I boot my laptop I see the Beastie menu, and after making a
selection, I get no output from boot1 or the kernel. So, when my laptop
  is done booting, my screen looks like this:

/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x3fbfc data=0x1c04+0x112c
syms=[0x4+0x72f0+0x4+0x97c7
]
-
FreeBSD/i386 (laptop.taborandtashell.net) (ttyv0)

login:

Also, nothing that would normally be displayed on ttyv0 via /dev/console 
  (syslog stuff) is there. Booting with ACPI disabled does not help. The 
weird thing is that this didn't used to happen. Right before all of this 
started, I was trying to get my touch pad working and I:

1. ran /stand/sysinstall and played with mouse settings.

2. edited /etc/rc.conf

3. created /boot/device.hints (I tried removing device.hints, it didn't 
help)

Here is /etc/rc.conf:

sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
pccard_enable="YES"
hostname="laptop.taborandtashell.net"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"
moused_enable="YES"

Here is /boot/devices.hints:

hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
hint.psm.0.irq="12"
# the next line was added for touchpad
hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000"

dmesg shows:

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.30GHz (2292.57-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9

Features=0xbfebf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 535597056 (510 MB)
avail memory = 514543616 (490 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <DELL CPi R  > on motherboard
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
ACPI link \\_SB_.PCI0.LNKB has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82845G (845G GMCH) SVGA controller> mem
0xf6f80000-0xf6ffffff,0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: detected 892k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 128M
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xbf80-0xbf9f
irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xbf40-0xbf5f
irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xbf20-0xbf3f
irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xfcffe000-0xfcffffff irq 5
at device 1.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0
bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0
bmtphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:56:af:f7:1f
bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
cbb0: <TI1510 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port
0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x66,0x62,0x64,0x60 irq 1 on
acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2292572548 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4241N/A100> at ata0-master UDMA33
ad2: 19077MB <IC25N020ATMR04-0/MO1OAD0A> [38760/16/63] at ata1-master
UDMA100
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a

More info: Other than this, my computer still works fine. I have tried 
this with and without /boot/loader.conf, which has one line:

linux_load="YES"

Thanks For Any Help You Can Give Me,

Tabor Kelly