Hi! I've started managing a serial server through a serial console, and have come into some unusual issues. I followed the instrucitons on faq 7.7, and also configured by BIOS accordingly.
When I conect my PC to the server, I see BIOS and POST output properly, I then see the OpenBSD bootloader properly, and all the kernel messages come out fine (ie: the white-on-blue text), however, AFTER the kernel messages, I only see the following sixteen characters and nothing else (though later kernel messages like plugging in a USB are shown properly). In single user mode, this would be: "Enter pathname o" In non-single user mode, this would be "Automatic boot i" It's extremely odd. I'm cleary not having cable issues, wrong rates, or anything alike, because I'm seeing kernel output just fine. $ cat /etc/boot.conf set tty com0 # cat /etc/ttys | grep tty00 tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure I also noticed that if I ssh in, and run "reboot", I get a login screen on the screen (VGA) connected to that server - and reboot never completes (and traffic just keeps going through just fine through that machine). OpenBSD 5.4-current (GENERIC) #40: Mon Aug 19 17:13:59 MDT 2013 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: VIA Esther processor 1000MHz ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 1.01 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX ,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE,NXE,SSE3,EST,TM2 real mem = 2011410432 (1918MB) avail mem = 1966735360 (1875MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 02/27/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xfca30 (47 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "080014" date 02/27/2008 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 3.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf5a20/272 (15 entries) pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found: ICU vendor 0x1106 product 0x3287 pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing pcibios0: PCI bus #130 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xde00 0xce000/0x1000 0xcf000/0x5c00! cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: RNG AES AES-CTR SHA1 SHA256 RSA cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr 0x08100a1308000a13 cpu0: using only highest and lowest power states cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1010 MHz: speeds: 1000, 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA P4M900 Host" rev 0x00 viaagp0 at pchb0: v3 agp0 at viaagp0: aperture at 0xf0000000, size 0x10000000 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "VIA P4M900 Host" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 "VIA P4M900 Host" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 "VIA P4M900 Host" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 "VIA P4M900 Host" rev 0x00 "VIA P4M900 IOAPIC" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 0 function 5 not configured pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 6 "VIA P4M900 Security" rev 0x00 pchb6 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 "VIA P4M900 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "VIA Chrome9 HC IGP" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "VIA P4M900" rev 0x80: irq 10 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "VIA P4M900" rev 0x80: irq 10 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 vge0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT612x" rev 0x82: irq 10, address 00:40:63:f6:ef:de ipgphy0 at vge0 phy 22: IP1001 10/100/1000 PHY, rev. 0 ahci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT8251 AHCI" rev 0x20: irq 5, AHCI 1.0 scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <ATA, WDC WD30EZRX-00D, 80.0> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.50014ee6032ea621 sd0: 2861588MB, 512 bytes/sector, 5860533168 sectors sd1 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <ATA, WDC WD20EARX-00P, 51.0> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.50014ee206653204 sd1: 1907729MB, 512 bytes/sector, 3907029168 sectors pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x07: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives) pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x91: irq 11 uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x91: irq 7 uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x91: irq 5 ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x90: irq 7 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "VIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8251 ISA" rev 0x00: SMI iic0 at viapm0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x51: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-6400CL5 viapm0: 24-bit timer at 3579545Hz pchb7 at pci0 dev 17 function 7 "VIA VT8251 VLINK" rev 0x00 vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x7c: irq 11, address 00:40:63:f6:ef:df ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 10: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0032 ppb3 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci4 at ppb3 bus 128 ppb4 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci5 at ppb4 bus 130 ppb5 at pci4 dev 0 function 1 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci6 at ppb5 bus 129 azalia0 at pci4 dev 1 function 0 "VIA HD Audio" rev 0x00: irq 5 azalia0: codecs: VIA/0x1708 audio0 at azalia0 usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 schsio0 at isa0 port 0x162e/2: SCH3112 rev 0x02, watchdog disabled npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "SanDisk Extreme" rev 2.10/0.10 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd2 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <SanDisk, Extreme, 0001> SCSI4 0/direct removable serial.07815580121413523889 sd2: 15272MB, 512 bytes/sector, 31277232 sectors uhidev0 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Microsoft Microsoft\M-. Digital Media Keyboard 3000" rev 2.00/2.00 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "Microsoft Microsoft\M-. Digital Media Keyboard 3000" rev 2.00/2.00 addr 2 uhidev1: iclass 3/0, 3 report ids uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 1: input=7, output=0, feature=0 uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 3: input=1, output=0, feature=0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd2a (8cd4486d62e3d00d.a) swap on sd2b dump on sd2b -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]