>I'm trying to get a 3.2-STABLE to boot via the serial console.
>
>I can get the "boot: " rompt and loader to display to the serial
>console, but after the 9 second delay it continues to boot but
>no output is generated to the screen (device probes etc.).
>
>After the boot has completed, the login prompt is displayed on the
>console and I can login. I just want it to display the boot
>information (probes ... hd ... etc.)
>
>the /boot.config file has the following option
>-h
>
>and that is the only line ... I have tried both -h and -P ...
>I have tried only -P
>
>The "show" command under loader shows that the console is set to
>comconsole
>
>I've also treid a kernel with "flags 0x01" to the atkbd ... but
>it also doesn't work and the "options COMCONSOLE" for the kernel
>is nolonger allowed according to config.
You should set the flags 0x10 to the serial port you want to use
as the console.
See the man page for sio(4) and /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial.
(I know /sys/i386/boot/biosboot is a strange place to look for this
information, but... :-)
Kazu
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