From owner-freebsd-small Mon May 1 19:15:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155D037BA0C for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA04985; Mon, 1 May 2000 19:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005020223.TAA04985@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Marco Molteni Cc: "Edward W. Akeyson" , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4-STABLE on IOPENER, no console output In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 19:13:05 PDT." <20000501191305.A72524@sofia.csl.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 19:23:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 01 May 2000, Edward W. Akeyson wrote: > > > I am trying to get FreeBSD running on an Iopener, and am getting some > > strange behavior. I am running 3.4-STBLE, but during boot the screen and > > keyboard stop responding. It gets to "Booting [kernel]..." and then stops > > responding. However, it boots fine (I can hear the hard drive spin) and I > > can telnet and FTP into it from the server to which it is attached by PLIP. > > I have included the dmesg output and my kernel config file below. > > > > It is as if it is sending output to the serial console, and I do not want > > this. I haven't hooked up anything to the serial line, as this requires some > > interface circuitry first, so I don't know if this is the case really. > > [..] > > I have seen something similar on FreeBSD installed via the serial port. > Check /boot/loader.conf for a line like > > console="vidconsole" # Set the current console > > if you have it set to something like "serial" (sorry, I don't remember > the exact name), this will mean that the console will be the serial > port. You can comment the line out and it should work. That would be "comconsole", but it takes effect earlier than this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message