>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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
