Strange nanobsd issue

[Mike Tancsa]

At 04:56 PM 1/2/2009, Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> >>
> >> having nullconsole doesnt seem to matter any.  The device.hints
> >> modification seems to be the single thing that effects this behavior.
>
>Apparently something goes wrong during /etc/rc processing if there's
>no console at all.  Having a dcons_load="YES" in loader.conf creates
>a console even if there's no hardware attached to it.  I think that
>boot_multicons="YES" can even be omitted here.
>
>Could you please do one more test?  Add rc_debug="YES" to rc.conf
>and take boot_multicons="YES" and dcons_load="YES" out of loader.conf.
>This should give you two /etc and two /var mounts again.  Then post the
>output of dmesg -a as it should reveal when and probably also why these
>filesystems get mounted twice.


Hi,
         You are right about having just the dcons. Thats all that is 
needed.  In terms of dmesg -a, it doesnt haven anything when I dont 
have a console of some sort defined :(

Is there any other way to get rc to save its output elsewhere ?

         ---Mike