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Date:      Sun, 4 Oct 1998 14:18:12 +0100 (BST)
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@caladan.tdx.co.uk>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Now ELF, CAM but no serial console?
Message-ID:  <199810041318.OAA00221@caladan.tdx.co.uk>

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Hi All,

I've just put my system finally through a few busy hours
and I'm now running -current as of 11am 10/04/98...

The upgrades etc. went OK - but now I'm getting kernel
traps when I push the disks... I'm trying to setup a
serial console to capture the panics, but I'm not
having much luck...

I've set si0 to have flags of 0x20, and I boot with '-h'
(by doing echo "-h" >/boot.config) - I also have options
DDB and DDB_UNATTENDED in my kernel config, as well as
CONSPEED=57600...

When booting I get the usual '>> FreeBSD BOOT @ ...'
messages sent to the serial port, but they stop just
after the system says 'entry point=0x100000'.

When the system panics, it's only shown on the VGA console
not the serial one... Am I missing something? - I've tried
looking through the handbook, and FAQ briefly - I don't
have easy access to a web browser or even Pine at the
moment though...

I was under the impression I would be able to do things
like take the machine to single-user mode and then do my
'make installworlds' from my main workstation (via the
serial port) instead of having to go visit the machine?

Anyway - good work by all the ELF/CAM & support people,
apart from the occasional panic's under extreeme load, the
system is up, working - and on the whole not complaining
too much... ;-)

Regards,

Karl

ps. If I can't get the serial side working I'll get a pen
and paper the next time the system panic's... ;-)

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