From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 12:47:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD4B16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:47:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAF843D2F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (qmail 21026 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2004 12:47:14 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Nov 2004 12:47:13 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.15] (osx.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAOCl1n2042699; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:47:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) In-Reply-To: <20041124074757.3B35643D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041124074757.3B35643D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Baldwin Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:47:01 -0500 To: Danny Braniss X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:26:03 +0000 cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A20/keybord/no-keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:47:15 -0000 On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:47 AM, Danny Braniss wrote: >> If the VGA driver is present, the system will assume you want to use a >> VGA console, unless you force one of the serial ports to become the >> system console by setting the appropriate hint in device.hints or >> loader.conf as documented in the sio(4) man page. For instance: >> >> hint.sio.0.flags="0x30" >> >> forces sio0 to become the system console regardless of the presence of >> a display adapter. >> >> You may also have to tell the boot code and loader to use the serial >> console; see their respective manual pages. >> > > im using hint.sio.0.flags="0x20", and still, only after i removed the > vga > from the config file did i get the console output on the serial line. > > i'm using boot0sio, so the boot is also talking via the serial, but > the BTX > is still using the vga, compiling it to use the serial gave errors. BTX_SERIAL will not work with boot2 (hard drive boot blocks) due to space constraints. It does work for /boot/loader and pxeboot however. Note that it only outputs meaningful text if it crashes anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org