From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 14:47:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E45B1572D for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA14986; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:48:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906302148.RAA14986@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Serial Console Booting To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions), Kazutaka@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com, Yokota@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com, Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:48:24 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am still having mixed results using a serial terminal as the console. I have successfully built a kernel that sends its booting messages to the serial terminal, but I have not been able to get the bootstrap code to print to the terminal. I have the following lines in my make.conf, BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT= 0x2F8 BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED= 19200 And I know they do work to some degree, since I get the harware discovery messages to the terminal. I have, % cat /boot.config -D Which should cause messages to pour to both the serial console and the VGA, and the kernel does print on both. I have gone to /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 and built new boot[012] and installed them to /boot, then, to be safe, I, # disklabel -B wd0s1 # disklabel -B wd0s2 Even though slice 2 is the root partition. I reboot and the, No keyboard found >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 640/7168 k of memory, serial console Boot default: 0:wd(0,a)kernel boot: Prompt still goes to the VGA and not the serial console. I even went through and rebuilt /boot/loader. Am I missing something? Thanks for any help. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message