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Date:      Mon, 1 May 2000 19:13:05 -0700
From:      Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com>
To:        "Edward W. Akeyson" <eakeyson@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.4-STABLE on IOPENER, no console output
Message-ID:  <20000501191305.A72524@sofia.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIDOKILFAGOJNPOELKEJNCDAA.eakeyson@earthlink.net>; from eakeyson@earthlink.net on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:04:12PM -0400
References:  <NDBBIDOKILFAGOJNPOELKEJNCDAA.eakeyson@earthlink.net>

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On Mon, 01 May 2000, Edward W. Akeyson wrote:

> I am trying to get FreeBSD running on an Iopener, and am getting some
> strange behavior. I am running 3.4-STBLE, but during boot the screen and
> keyboard stop responding. It gets to "Booting [kernel]..." and then stops
> responding. However, it boots fine (I can hear the hard drive spin) and I
> can telnet and FTP into it from the server to which it is attached by PLIP.
> I have included the dmesg output and my kernel config file below.
> 
> It is as if it is sending output to the serial console, and I do not want
> this. I haven't hooked up anything to the serial line, as this requires some
> interface circuitry first, so I don't know if this is the case really.

[..]

I have seen something similar on FreeBSD installed via the serial port.
Check /boot/loader.conf for a line like

    console="vidconsole"           # Set the current console

if you have it set to something like "serial" (sorry, I don't remember
the exact name), this will mean that the console will be the serial
port. You can comment the line out and it should work.

Marco
-- 
Marco Molteni "rough consensus and running code"
SRI International, System Design Laboratory


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