From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 26 9:33:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gactr.uga.edu (mail.gactr.uga.edu [128.192.37.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CA5837B403 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu) Received: (qmail 10504 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2001 16:33:19 -0000 Received: from qat.noc.nat (HELO gactr.uga.edu) ([10.10.100.125]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jul 2001 16:33:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3B60464F.229F72C6@gactr.uga.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:33:19 -0400 From: "Robin P. Blanchard" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: serial console woes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok... i've followed the instructions per the handbook for setting up a headless box with serial console. i keep running into the same problem. i see the box boot (via the serial link), and all relevant kernel messages are displayed via the serial link; but i never get a login prompt. it's as if only kernel messages are being redirected to the serial link and i don't really have a console. i tried forcing the serial port to be console via by adding 0x30 to its flags in the kernel config and still the same results. i've also played with all imagineable combinations of -P -D and -h in /boot.config help? thanks in advance. relevant dmesg: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Thu Jul 26 11:34:43 EDT 2001 root@qat.noc.nat:/usr/src/sys/compile/radio Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium Pro (199.43-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping = 9 Features=0xfbff real memory = 268435456 (262144K bytes) avail memory = 257708032 (251668K bytes) Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 EISA INTCONTROL = 00004e00 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 3, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 1, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000 VESA: v2.0, 1024k memory, flags:0x0, mode table:0xc0302e02 (1000022) VESA: ATI MACH64 Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 13.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 ahc0: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfddfe000-0xf ddfefff irq 9 at device 10.0 on pci1 aic7880: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xfddfd000-0xfddfdff f irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci1 aic7860: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs isab0: at device 15.0 on pci0 eisa0: on isab0 mainboard0: on eisa0 slot 0 isa0: on isab0 fxp0: port 0xf4a0-0xf4bf mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdff ffff,0xfdefe000-0xfdefefff irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:a0:c9:25:47:dd nsphy0: on miibus0 nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pcm0: port 0xf4c0-0xf4ff irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 de0: port 0xf400-0xf47f mem 0xfdeffc00-0xfdeffc7f irq 14 at device 19.0 on pci0 de0: SMC 9332BDT 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0 de0: address 00:e0:29:05:78:b5 pci0: at 20.0 orm0: