Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:47:38 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Sven Hazejager <sven@hazejager.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE Message-ID: <E1N7kVu-000Jni-Cw@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:52:58 %2B0100 .
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> All, > > I'm pulling my hair out on this one! Can't get the serial console to > work with nanoBSD, either 7.2-p4 or 7-STABLE. A 8.0 nanoBSD image > works fine (which I have not created myself). The symptom is that all > kernel output goes to VGA. Whatever I do. This happens in VMware > Player (where I actually see the VGA output) and on my ALIX > (Soekris-like) board (which does not have a VGA card). > > boot0 is boot0sio, boot.config contains -h and the loader works fine > over the serial port. console=comconsole there so that should work, > right? No, because still my kernel outputs everything to VGA... > > I'm using the sio device. Even tried putting flags on 0x30 -> no > difference at all. Tried the uart device and removing sio from my > kernel but that resulted in having NO serial ports at all... > > Any help is much appreciated! > > Sven hi, put hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" in /boot/device.hints, or better, make sure you have an updated one from /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints another thing, make sure the speed/bauds is correct, else you probably wont see any output either in /boot/loader.conf you need console="comconsole,vidconsole" and comconsole_speed="115200" to set the speed. to get a login you will need, in /etc/ttys: ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.115200" dialup on secure hope this helps danny
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