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Date:      Mon, 01 May 2000 19:23:46 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com>
Cc:        "Edward W. Akeyson" <eakeyson@earthlink.net>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.4-STABLE on IOPENER, no console output 
Message-ID:  <200005020223.TAA04985@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 19:13:05 PDT." <20000501191305.A72524@sofia.csl.sri.com> 

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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.

That would be "comconsole", but it takes effect earlier than this.

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