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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:35:10 +0930
From:      Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: serial console - no go
Message-ID:  <1219824310.49053.220.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse>
In-Reply-To: <20080826215956.M47387@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <20080826215956.M47387@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:00 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i put -h in /boot.config
> 
> FreeBSD loaders starts with serial console fine, load kernel, boots and...
> kernel uses VGA as console.
> 
> what i do wrong?
> 
Have you checked flag setting on sio?

        # dmesg | grep "sio.*flags"
        sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
        
See handbook 24.6.3.4 for requirements:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html#SERIALCONSOLE-HOWTO


Wayne





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