Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:47:01 -0500 From: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A20/keybord/no-keyboard Message-ID: <EF5F8086-3E16-11D9-9896-000393921CC4@baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20041124074757.3B35643D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041124074757.3B35643D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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