From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 3 12:14:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00E637B423; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from langd@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.24.91] HELO atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ident: IDENT-NONSENSE [port 2039]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <114336-237>; Thu, 3 May 2001 21:13:59 +0000 Received: by atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 20455) id 652A613667; Thu, 3 May 2001 21:13:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 21:13:52 +0200 From: Daniel Lang To: Mike Smith Cc: Lars Eggert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Console speed Message-ID: <20010503211352.A96026@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <3AF090AF.31215A1C@isi.edu> <200105022308.f42N8Pl00912@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105022308.f42N8Pl00912@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:08:25PM -0700 X-Geek: GCS d-- s: a- C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E W+++(--) N+ o K w--- O? M- V@ PS+(++) PE--(+) Y+ PGP+ t++ 5@ X R+(-) tv+ b+ DI++ D++ G++ e+++ h---(-) r++>+++ y Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Mike, Mike Smith wrote on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:08:25PM -0700: [..] > You don't want to set CONSPEED in the kernel config, or change the loader > configuration. Just build/install boot1/boot2 with a new > BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED, and ensure that /etc/ttys is correctly set for > your desired console rate. This works. I tried this. Rebuilt the kernel without any CONSPEED option, bootstrap untouched (did already work with 38400), still the same problem. To illustrate it a bit, here cut & paste from the console server, which is permanently set at 38400: [..] Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS drive D: is disk2 BIOS drive E: is disk3 BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (root@atleo1.leo.org, Tue Apr 24 09:16:22 CEST 2001) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /kernel text=0x20ec4e data=0x27cd4+0x301a4 syms=[0x4+0x2d3e0+0x4+0x32f1e] Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel]... øøøøøøàøøÀøøøøøøøøÀ... [.. from here on, the kernel boot messages should appear starting with: Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. but its not readable on the console-server, because of the wrong speed. This stays until /etc/rc.sysctl resets machdep.conspeed=38400 Then the system startup / rc continues (then readable) until the getty is started (which of course is also running at 38400) ..] øàøøøøþøÀøàüüxachdep.conspeed: 9600 -> 38400 Doing initial network setup: hostname. fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 131.159.72.9 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 131.159.73.255 inet6 fe80::2a0:c9ff:fe99:504e%fxp0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x1 inet 131.159.72.28 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 131.159.72.28 ether 00:a0:c9:99:50:4e media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active [ remaining startup output omitted ] Additional TCP options:. Thu May 3 21:02:16 CEST 2001 FreeBSD/i386 (atleo1.leo.org) (ttyd0) login: [..] So far... Thanks, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - Eddie would go! - Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 25735 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message