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

[Rob]

John Hay wrote:
>>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.

I'm not sure I get your point. Just double check for me:

Currently I have in my DISKLESS kernel configuration file these lines

#To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints
#hints          "GENERIC.hints"         # Default places to look for devices.


Are you suggesting that I have to comment out the hints line here
to get the kernel messages and bootup sequence printed on my screen?

Do I have to manually copy /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints to
/boot, or will that be done automatically?

Rob.