From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 12:54:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from danu.ili.net (danu.ili.net [206.250.201.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91E737B413 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (djf2@localhost) by danu.ili.net (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g5EJshW07365 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:54:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:54:43 -0400 (EDT) From: djf2 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Serial console issues Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been running into several problems with trying to get a serial console working at faster than 9600 bps. I followed the instructions from the handbook as closely as possible, but wasn't able to find any info on how to recompile the bootblocks. So, I googled a few pages that had some info. Unfortunately, I've found two different ways to recompile the boot blocks. Here's what I've done : make.conf containes 'BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200' /boot.config contains '-P' /etc/ttys ttyd0 is set to 'std.115200' Now, according to one page I found, I need to : cd /sys/boot/i386/boot2 make clean && make all install This errors out looking for some object files, which were easy enough to track down and install and eventaully it compiles and installs. After the 'disklabel -B ad0', I reboot and get nothing on the serial console until I turn my speed down to 9600 and then everything functions perfectly. I found one other page that says I need to do the following : cd /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot && make clean && make all install After I disklabel those blocks in (which are put into /usr/mdec), I get the following error as I try to boot : >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 638/65468 k of memory, serial/dual console Boot default: 0:wd(0,a)kernel boot Invalid format! I'm stumped as to what I'm doing wrong. It looks like the changes are noticed while the boot blocks are compiling and the console works fine at 9600, but that's kinda slow for this machine. Anyone have any pointers? Thanks in advance, -- "Is that sound you're hearing the trumpeting of St. Peter's angels or the screams of Memnoch's tortured souls?" Don Flynn djf2@ili.net Sayge@IRC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message