From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 02:37:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1DD16A41F for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:37:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iedowse@iedowse.com) Received: from nowhere.iedowse.com (nowhere.iedowse.com [82.195.144.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD93D43D45 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:37:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iedowse@iedowse.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=iedowse.com) by nowhere.iedowse.com via local-iedowse id ; 23 Sep 2005 03:36:59 +0100 (IST) To: othermark In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:27:13 PDT." Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:36:58 +0100 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200509230336.aa89488@nowhere.iedowse.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial ttys broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:37:01 -0000 In message , othermark writes: >I probably should have piped up on -current, but yes, serial console is >'different' after the recent changes went into the boot loader. > >-P in /boot.config and the following in /etc/make.conf > >BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT=0x3F8 >BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200 > >used to be enough for my boxes to work, but now (of course, only after a >installworld for the bootloader) the following in /boot/loader.conf > >console=comconsole >comconsole_speed=115200 > >seems to be required for serial console to work. Does reinstalling boot2 help (e.g. disklabel -B ad0s1)? Previously both boot2 and loader would independently pick up the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED setting and apply it, but after the recent changes the loader will use the setting from boot2 if a serial console has been selected (-h or -P). What wasn't working without the above loader.conf lines BTW? Was it just the speed that was wrong, or did the kernel not use a serial console at all? Ian