Problem on a laptop with current

[Doug White]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Yannick FAHAM wrote:

> > > after compiling the kernel, the boot process freeze on the hardware
> > > enumeration. I have disabled acpi and boot in verbose mode and I have
> > > many errors message like
> > > (probe0)... Error 22.
> > > Sorry for my english, i'm french.
> >
> > Could you post the dmesg you're getting?  This isn't enough to tell...
> >
> > >
>
> Sorry, I can't save the output because of the hangs. The error on
> "probe" was about the "sbp" module, so I have disable when building the
> kernel.

Set up a serial console and capture it that way.

> I have no error any more but the boot still stop after :
> ...
> ...
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> start_init: trying /sbin/init

You installed the hints file, yes?  This happens if the hints file isn't
installed, so you have no video console.  Serial console would still work
though :)

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