From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 23 21:19:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E36D89F9 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-227-057.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.227.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 580F01CCD for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from i7-quad-PC.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-142.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.142]) by mail.computinginnovations.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0NLB0Or080709; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:11:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20140123150005.0665e0c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:08:06 -0600 To: David Tenney , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.2 won't boot without a video console under KVM In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140123-0, 01/23/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-computinginnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-computinginnovations-MailScanner-ID: s0NLB0Or080709 X-computinginnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-computinginnovations-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.271, required 6, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_24 1.62, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, T_REMOTE_IMAGE 0.01) X-computinginnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:19:25 -0000 At 01:06 PM 1/23/2014, David Tenney wrote: >I'm trying to run a FreeBSD 9.2 64-bit installation under KVM, but am >having issues when I remove the video hardware and install a serial console >connection. The installation boots just fine when video/Cirrus hardware is >provided to the virtual machine, but once it is removed, the installation >stops at the BTX loader and causes KVM to go into Paused mode, which cannot >be returned to Running. Here is a list of adjustments that were made to >configuration files: > >/etc/ttys: > >ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > >/boot/defaults/loader.conf: > >console="comconsole" > >/boot.config: > >echo "-hP" > /boot.config > >Any help would be great. Thanks! > >-- >David I have systems setup to do serial and regular consoles. In my setup I access the serial console over lan via ipmitool. In loader.conf I have comsole="comconsole,vidconsole" comconsole_speed="115200" boot_multicons="YES" boot_serial="YES" Along with some hint.uart settings such as: hint.uart.2.baud="115200" hint.uart.2.port="0x3e8" hint.uart.2.irq="10" hint.uart.2.flags="0x10" -Derek --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.