No kernel messages displayed during boot

[Dmitry Karasik]

 Jeremy> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 08:01:59PM +0100, Dmitry Karasik wrote:
 >> I've re-run 'make installworld' and 'make installkernel' (as I had
 >> leftovers from recent buildworld), - didn't help. I've tried to power
 >> down the machine (suspecied video card trouble), I've resetted BIOS,
 >> I've even disabled com port in BIOS (because the behavior looks like
 >> booting on serial console) -- nothing, absolutely nothing changes it.

 Jeremy> conscontrol(8) might help here ("conscontrol list").  Also worth
 Jeremy> looking at is sysctl kern.console.

Hello Jeremy,

Thanks, at least this is a hint. That shows on my system:

$ conscontrol list
Configured: 
Available: 
Muting: off

and sysctl kern.console is / (not that I know what that means).

Then I try this:

$ conscontrol add /dev/console
conscontrol: could not add console as a console: Device not configured
$ conscontrol add /dev/consolectl 
conscontrol: could not add consolectl as a console: Device not configured

Is that the expected behavior? What else I might try?


-- 
Sincerely,
	Dmitry Karasik