Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:54:20 -0500 From: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: A20/keybord/no-keyboard Message-ID: <200411240954.20044.john@baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20041124142910.3A38E43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041124142910.3A38E43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 24 November 2004 09:29 am, Danny Braniss wrote: > > 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 Ah, I've fixed the btx compile. Seems some comment rototilling busted it. -- John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> <>< http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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