Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:13:47 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart) Message-ID: <48CA089B.6010102@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <e7db6d980809112310l298d7aaan5760c29f2fc052d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <p06240801c4ef771564d6@128.113.24.47> <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com> <e7db6d980809112310l298d7aaan5760c29f2fc052d9@mail.gmail.com>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> wrote: >> On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>> After I boot up, the only /dev/tty* devices I have are ttyv0 >>> through ttyvf. I've installed the new /etc/ttys and a new >>> /boot/device.hints, though frankly device.hints has always >>> been a magic-box to me, so I just blindly copied what was in >>> GENERIC.hints and changed hint.uart.0.flags to be "0x30". >> uart(4) does tell you when it's the console: >> >> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 >> uart0: [FILTER] >> uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) >> >> The first question is: do you see a line like the one above? >> If not (most likely), try to boot explicitly with a serial >> console (i.e. set boot_serial=yes at the loader prompt or >> boot with -h). > > He probably also needs to update his /boot/device.hints file. > (change sio to uart) I think uart should read 'sio' entries if there is no sio in the kernel, and it hasn't found any uart entries.. >
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