From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 10:17:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE15916A422 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:17:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua (tigra.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C61D43D93 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:17:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from localhost (rocky.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.2]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1RAHDGN015878; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:17:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua ([82.193.96.10]) by localhost (rocky.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30729-01-8; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:17:12 +0200 (EET) Received: from heffalump.ip.net.ua (heffalump.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.213]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1R8cCHY011142 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:38:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by heffalump.ip.net.ua (8.13.4/8.13.4) id k1R8cKgk040650; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:38:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:38:20 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Dimitry Andric Message-ID: <20060227083820.GK42677@ip.net.ua> References: <200602260156.aa34941@nowhere.iedowse.com> <440200F2.9010106@andric.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="V3eawNQxI9TAjvgi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <440200F2.9010106@andric.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ip.net.ua Cc: Ian Dowse , Ed Maste , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:17:36 -0000 --V3eawNQxI9TAjvgi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Ian Dowse wrote: > >> Okay, but why did 4.x through 5.x through 6.x (these have all been on > >> this particular machine) always boot with 115200 until now? :) >=20 > > They probably used 9600 for the boot blocks, and then switched to > > 115200 when /boot/loader started, so you didn't notice. Now the > > settings from the boot blocks get used by /boot/loader. >=20 > Ah, but this still means that /boot/loader used to use a hardcoded > default specified in /etc/make.conf, and now it doesn't honor that anymor= e. >=20 Have you checked with documentation? : comconsole_speed : Defines the speed of the serial console (i386 and amd64 only). : If the previous boot stage indicated that a serial console is : in use then this variable is initialized to the current speed : of the console serial port. Otherwise it is set to 9600 unless : this was overridden using the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED variable : when loader was compiled. Changes to the comconsole_speed : variable take effect immediately. > > Boot blocks need to be installed manually - installworld installs > > the boot blocks as files in /boot/boot{1,2}, but when booting, it > > is the boot blocks in the first 8k of the slice that are used, not > > the /boot/boot{1,2} files. >=20 > Okay. I still think it would be wiser to just reinstall them during > installworld, just to be sure there's no incompatibilities... >=20 It's not always possible to do: there can be different boot locations, the root FS can be a remote one, it can be a diskless system, etc. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --V3eawNQxI9TAjvgi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEArp8qRfpzJluFF4RApXGAJ4sHxEJDZ56bCuVq1gyvUjNuQjUnwCcCgLV CChSJMGh2UWS7XgUEqg1MEs= =4UA+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --V3eawNQxI9TAjvgi--