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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:27:08 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serial Console - broken? (src as of 10/16 @ 16:43) 
Message-ID:  <199810171827.LAA06756@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:00:54 BST." <362878E6.3EE89054@tdx.co.uk> 

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a serial console for ddb etc. - This used to work great, but with
> recent builds every time the system panic's, I get the usual details about the
> panic, but it ends with:
> 
> "
> current process         = Idle
> interrupt mask          = bio  <- SMP: XXX
> $T0b08:079713f0;05:784b80ff;04:644b80ff;#b4
> "
> 
> Any key presses on the serial console result in
> "04:644b80ff;#b4$T0b08:079713f0;" being displayed...
> 
> 'Ah, serial port speed I thought', erm, nope - double checking /etc/make.conf
> etc. it's set to 57600... Trying different speeds while it's in this state
> doesn't net anything better (I get a lot of 'xxx's at lower speeds, which are
> normal symptomatic of wrong serial speed).

You appear to be booting with the '-g' flag, as what you're seeing 
looks like the gdb-remote protocol.  The simple answer is "don't".

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