Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:37:02 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Serial console Message-ID: <20050315113702.GA46171@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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--7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Please forgive the FAQ - this is really baffling me now. I am trying to get the serial console running on a new server. The BIOS is set up the same as the other machines where the console works fine, BAUD rate, flow control etc all as expected. The BIOS includes a setting to control console redirect - it's currently set to "Boot loader", the other two options being disable or "Always" - we tried this latter yesterday, but to no effect. /boot/loader.rc contains this: include /boot/loader.4th start boot-conf -Dh /boot/loader.conf is empty. I have altered /etc/ttys to show this: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure sio0's entry in /boot/device.hints looks like this: hint.sio.0.at=3D"isa" hint.sio.0.port=3D"0x3F8" hint.sio.0.flags=3D"0x10" hint.sio.0.irq=3D"4" We tried 0x30 in flags as well, but to avail. It is running 5.3-RELEASE-p5, using GENERIC. The machine boots - you see the BIOS POST, the SATA controller comes up, then you see FreeBSD's boot messages on the console. As soon as the kernel launches, we get the login: prompt and then nothing. So, we know the hardware works; the problem is something I am doing with the kernel config. As I said, this setup is the same as a machine running the same hardware, that is known to be working. I have read the appropriate bits in the Handbook and the FAQ, as well as a couple of other sites, and have set up serial consoles on numerous occasions in the past. I'm just having a major brain fart this morning. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Cheers, Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCNsjehvzwOpChvo8RAgJmAJ464WwRofU306zSLKl7r7xVfn/RiQCgo6HW xp5ahsKCMTOS2hR9Y5c7ukw= =wnLP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH--
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