From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 15:02:58 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 E99D016A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:02:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6818543D1F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:02:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (qmail 19501 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2004 15:02:57 -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 15:02:57 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.235] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAOF2q9H043538; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:02:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:54:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041124142910.3A38E43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041124142910.3A38E43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411240954.20044.john@baldwin.cx> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:03:17 +0000 cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= 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 15:02:59 -0000 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 <>< http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org