On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:13:57 Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi, > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio), the input 'screwy' > at the selection of partition it is ignored, at the OK: prompt > from the boot (i had no kernel in the slice), the input is usually > doubled: > sshooww instead of show > which is probably similar to what is happening with boot0sio but it > only echoes # (the current bell). > > Once the kernel is up, the serial works fine. > > any ideas? >
Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA and serial port, output is doubled. Similar behavior is observed on older WRAP boards, too. Milan _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
