printing boot probe messages

Chuck Robey chuckr at chuckr.org
Sat Dec 22 09:52:49 PST 2007


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Bernd Walter wrote:
> OK, when I run conscontrol, it tells me I am using the dcons console.  I
> looked at the man page for concontrol (and I've been gone from FreeBSD so
> long, I wasn't even awaare of conscontrol at all) and it informed me I am
> using the dcons device.  I am not aware of any others, I was hoping that if
> there were such, there would be references to them in either the dcons or
> conscontrol man pages, but no lock.  Is dcons good enough?  You understand I
> would be ecstatic if it wasn't 9and if I could set it to something else, and
> thereby get my booting  messages back.)  I checked my kernel config file, it
> does indeed list the dcons device.
> 
>> dcons has no output as such, it depends on further support.
>> dcons for example allows console access over firewire.
>> You likely want consolectl as your configured console device.
>> I can just repeat myself: you must have missing some device hints,
>> since the device as such works fine but is not used as console.
>> See if conscontrol lists consolectl as available console devices,
>> if not than you are surely missing a hint if yes then you have
>> explicitly configured you console to be on dcons.

I wish you'd given more examples, because the concontrol man page is extremely
unhelpful, but I will see if I can prompt you into it, by providing what comes
out of my running conscontrol:


TCSH-april:root:/home/chuckr:#105-12:23>conscontrol
Configured: dcons
 Available: dcons,gdb
    Muting: off

If you use the "list" parameter to conscontrol, the same printout results.  I
*think* you might be saying that I should see something dealing with
consolectl, nothing resu;ting even from man -k consolectl.  I did find the
file /dev/consolectl, but I can't figure out the use of it.

Hmmm, I found a hint on an old email, hinting that the command "conscontrol
should have been used to add a console.  I just tried using the ctl-alt-f1
combo to get onto ttyv0.  I did a tty, this proved I was in fact on ttyv0, so
i tried to do a "conscontrol add /dev/ttyv0, but what came back was "device
not configured".  I think I'm close here, so what should my console device be?

> 
> Have any other ideas, I'm really listening here.
> 
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