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Subject: Re: serial console - no go
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On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:00 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i put -h in /boot.config
> 
> FreeBSD loaders starts with serial console fine, load kernel, boots and...
> kernel uses VGA as console.
> 
> what i do wrong?
> 
Have you checked flag setting on sio?

        # dmesg | grep "sio.*flags"
        sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
        
See handbook 24.6.3.4 for requirements:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html#SERIALCONSOLE-HOWTO


Wayne