5.3-Beta7: diskless boot up does not show boot messages on screen.

[John Hay]

> 
> I am now successfully booting a diskless PC with 5.3-Beta7,
> using an etherboot floppy. I can see the initial boot up
> from floppy, followed by the downloading of the kernel
> ("..................done"). But after that no more messages
> on the screen anymore, until after a while the login prompt
> appears.
> 
> The diskless PC does produce a legitimate /var/run/dmesg.boot.
> So I can inspect the bootup process after a successful boot.
> 
> However, if there's a boot problem, I do not at all get a
> clue what's going wrong. A verbose boot up on the screen
> is then of vital importance.
> 
> So why do i not get any verbose boot up of the kernel
> messages with the diskless boot?

Uncomment the hints line in your kernel config file or a hints line
looking at the example in the GENERIC config and rebuild your kernel.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay at icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org