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Date:      Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:28:23 +0100
From:      Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@iedowse.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca>
Subject:   Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud
Message-ID:  <44020F67.7030104@andric.com>
In-Reply-To: <200602260034.aa33612@nowhere.iedowse.com>
References:  <200602260034.aa33612@nowhere.iedowse.com>

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Ian Dowse wrote:
> The problem may be that your boot blocks were compiled with
> BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED set to 9600. Try reinstalling them with e.g.
> `disklabel -B ad0s1' (make sure you get the right device name -
> it should be the slice that you boot from).

Argh, shouldn't have done this without thinking on a dangerously
dedicated disk. :)  But after recovering the partition table with fdisk,
the new boot blocks work as expected, thanks.


> Previously both /boot/loader and the boot blocks would override the
> serial port speed according to BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED, but I believe
> that since the recent change, loader will assume that if the boot
> blocks requested a serial console, then they will have already set
> up the correct speed.

Yes, so people should be urged to upgrade their boot blocks, in case of
a non-binary upgrade.  (I assume that a binary upgrade WILL install
fresh boot blocks?)



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