From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 4 14:23:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE47716A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 14:23:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from corona.wixb.com (corona.wixb.com [65.43.82.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5754843D2F for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 14:23:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from coors.wixb.com (coors.wixb.com [10.43.82.5]) by corona.wixb.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i64ENBeO000324; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 09:23:11 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee WI USA Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20040704092215.00bd1288@absolut.wixb.com> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:23:11 -0500 To: Skylar Thompson From: "J.D. Bronson" In-Reply-To: <20040704142024.GA54204@quark.cs.earlham.edu> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040704085709.00be5d58@absolut.wixb.com> <20040704142024.GA54204@quark.cs.earlham.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Miltered: at corona.wixb.com with ID 40E812CF.000 by j-chkmail cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slow serial console 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:23:16 -0000 At 09:20 AM 7/4/2004, Skylar Thompson wrote: >On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:59:57AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > > This is really odd. I setup a 5.2.1 machine and used the serial port for > > console. I see it booting up just fine until it gets to the part where it > > checks the hard drive for fragmentation....then it SLOWS to a crawl.... > > > > it get's past the hard drive and then each part of the boot is word by > word > > as if someone is typing it.... > > > > Once the machine is up, the network side of it FLIES and all is well...but > > the serial console cannot be used at all...nothing happens. Like it's > > jammed or stuck for example. > > > > This is on a compaq deskpro EN SFF with dual COM ports and I built a > kernel > > that detects as much as I can on this machine. > > > > I have other FreeBSD machines that do not exhibit this and was > wondering if > > anyone else came across this before and what they did? > >Do the serial settings change at all on the port? > >-- Not that I am aware of...9600N81 ...thats all I ever use. Its something specific to this machine, as if I take the hard drive and toss it into an IBM machine (just for a test) it boots right up. -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: jd@aurora.org // Pager: 414.314.8282