Subject: No console...reboot
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Chad Edward Albrecht <albrecht@csd.uwm.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/03/1995 15:21:26
I am trying to compile a system (kernel) that will run with no console
configured into it at all, not even a serial one. When I do this it
reboots somewhere after /etc/netstart runs ifconfig. I can't tell
exactly where since there is no console attached. I set the constab
equal to {NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL} in conf.c and that reboots it everytime.
I checked which function pointer was actually causing the problem and it
turns out to be cn_probe. For some reason it does not like the priority
to be set to CN_DEAD. I tried setting it to CN_NORMAL and making cn_dev
equal to 2 | 2 (/dev/null) and it reboots then too. I tried a couple
other combos and found that it either hangs or reboots all the time.
Does anyone have any hints or pointers as to what might be causing this ?
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Regards,
Chad
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~albrecht@csd4.csd.uwm.edu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
--Jules de Gaultier
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