From owner-freebsd-small Thu Nov 2 14:23:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-14.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B56D37B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA2MRlF01506; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:27:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011022227.eA2MRlF01506@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: nludban@pokey.salientsystems.com Cc: John Lengeling , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting with serial console In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:25:03 EST." <3A01874F.E522C414@salientsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:27:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I've nuked your original message (sorry), but this looks like you have a BIOS running a screen-scraper video emulation, but don't have the bootstrap/loader actually aimed at the serial port. If that's the case, put -h in /boot.config on the boot disk and try again, or if you're not running with a filesystem, you'll need to tweak boot2 to set the default console to serial. > Now I'm even more puzzled... I looked up the escape sequence, and the 8 bytes > from 1b to 48 are position cursor at line and column. So it's always going to > line 25, and the column starts at 1 and increases, then starts over at 1. But > it never actually prints anything between the escape sequences. Looking at the > whole capture file, the ending columns are: > > 33 > 23 > 23 > 35 > 44 > 54 > 2 (repeated about 100 times) > 36 > 2 (x100) > 22 > > which looks a lot like the output from BTX loader, so I'll start looking through > it to see if I can find out why it hangs there. But back to the original > question, > what's happening to the output between the escapes? > > --Neil > > > > John Lengeling wrote: > > > > Neil Ludban wrote: > > > > The 1b 5b 32 35 ... sequence are ANSI cursor positioning ESC codes. Your system it trying to draw something as if it was connected to a vt100/ANSI terminal. > > > > johnl > > > > > > > > 00000940 4d 42 52 0d 0a 52 65 6c 6f 63 61 74 69 6e 67 0d |MBR..Relocating.| > > > 00000950 0a 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 0d 0a 30 30 30 30 37 |.00000000..00007| > > > 00000960 63 30 30 0d 0a 2d 08 5c 08 7c 08 2f 08 2d 08 5c |c00..-.\.|./.-.\| > > > 00000970 08 7c 08 2f 08 2d 08 5c 08 7c 08 2f 08 2d 08 5c |.|./.-.\.|./.-.\| > > > * > > > 000009c0 08 7c 08 2f 08 2d 08 1b 5b 32 35 3b 30 31 48 1b |.|./.-..[25;01H.| > > > 000009d0 5b 32 35 3b 30 32 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 30 33 48 1b |[25;02H.[25;03H.| > > > 000009e0 5b 32 35 3b 30 34 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 30 35 48 1b |[25;04H.[25;05H.| > > > 000009f0 5b 32 35 3b 30 36 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 30 37 48 1b |[25;06H.[25;07H.| > > > 00000a00 5b 32 35 3b 30 38 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 30 39 48 1b |[25;08H.[25;09H.| > > > 00000a10 5b 32 35 3b 31 30 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 31 31 48 1b |[25;10H.[25;11H.| > > > 00000a20 5b 32 35 3b 31 32 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 31 33 48 1b |[25;12H.[25;13H.| > > > 00000a30 5b 32 35 3b 31 34 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 31 35 48 1b |[25;14H.[25;15H.| > > > 00000a40 5b 32 35 3b 31 36 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 31 37 48 1b |[25;16H.[25;17H.| > > > 00000a50 5b 32 35 3b 31 38 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 31 39 48 1b |[25;18H.[25;19H.| > > > 00000a60 5b 32 35 3b 32 30 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 32 31 48 1b |[25;20H.[25;21H.| > > > 00000a70 5b 32 35 3b 32 32 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 32 33 48 1b |[25;22H.[25;23H.| > > > 00000a80 5b 32 35 3b 32 34 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 32 35 48 1b |[25;24H.[25;25H.| > > > 00000a90 5b 32 35 3b 32 36 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 32 37 48 1b |[25;26H.[25;27H.| > > > 00000aa0 5b 32 35 3b 32 38 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 32 39 48 1b |[25;28H.[25;29H.| > > > 00000ab0 5b 32 35 3b 33 30 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 33 31 48 1b |[25;30H.[25;31H.| > > > 00000ac0 5b 32 35 3b 33 32 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 33 33 48 1b |[25;32H.[25;33H.| > > > 00000ad0 5b 32 35 3b 30 31 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 30 32 48 1b |[25;01H.[25;02H.| > > > 00000ae0 5b 32 35 3b 30 33 48 1b 5b 32 35 3b 30 34 48 1b |[25;03H.[25;04H.| > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message