On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:47 AM, Danny Braniss wrote:
If the VGA driver is present, the system will assume you want to use a VGA console, unless you force one of the serial ports to become the system console by setting the appropriate hint in device.hints or loader.conf as documented in the sio(4) man page. For instance:
hint.sio.0.flags="0x30"
forces sio0 to become the system console regardless of the presence of a display adapter.
You may also have to tell the boot code and loader to use the serial console; see their respective manual pages.
im using hint.sio.0.flags="0x20", and still, only after i removed the vga
from the config file did i get the console output on the serial line.
i'm using boot0sio, so the boot is also talking via the serial, but the BTX
is still using the vga, compiling it to use the serial gave errors.
BTX_SERIAL will not work with boot2 (hard drive boot blocks) due to space
constraints. It does work for /boot/loader and pxeboot however. Note that
it only outputs meaningful text if it crashes anyway, so I wouldn't worry
about it.
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