No boot messages after upgrading to 7.0-BETA2

[Henri Hennebert]

AngryWolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I upgraded my FreeBSD 6.2 system to 7.0-BETA2 using cvsup and the 
> following howto, except that what I first did was a `pkg_delete -a':
> 
> http://d-kriptik.com/blog/2007/10/30/updating-to-freebsd-7-beta-1-from-freebsd-62/
> 
> Everything went OK, except that, after the second reboot, now I can see:
> 
> - no system messages (what I usually see in dmesg),
> - no rc messages (about daemons startup),
> - no general syslog messages (like using command 'su').

Just a thought, are you using a serial console, have you a /boot.config 
file?

Henri
> 
> It's like I've lost the default tty or something, because after the boot 
> process finishes, I can still log in, KDM starts up fine, etc.
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #7: Fri Nov  9 
> 13:16:53 CET 2007     
> angrywolf at localhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
> 
> I used the GENERIC configuration with the only difference that I added `device 
> atapicam' for kbd.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure whether I should enable SMP for my CPU, which is Intel(R) 
> Celeron(R) D 3.20GHz.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>