Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:29:08 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A20/keybord/no-keyboard Message-ID: <20041124142910.3A38E43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> <EF5F8086-3E16-11D9-9896-000393921CC4@baldwin.cx>
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> > 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. well, the host was not booting ... with BTX_SERIAL, btx does not compile, and for 'completness' it would be nice to have all console output, anyways my problem was not btx related. danny
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