From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 20:50:53 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6FB16A41A for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:50:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FDC13C448 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:50:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7022F1CC079; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:50:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:50:53 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Marian Hettwer Message-ID: <20071213205053.GA10017@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <6d41e00a0d0deb2e305b1a4f86b9c601@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6d41e00a0d0deb2e305b1a4f86b9c601@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 BETA4 no serial console X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:50:53 -0000 On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: > here's a snipped of a verbose boot: > sio0: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > sio0: port may not be enabled This is somewhat normal (depends on the system), and can sometimes even function normally (as is the case on your system). > sio0: port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on acpi0 > sio0: type 16550A, console The "acpi0" portion of this is why you see the "configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0"; if acpi0 was isa0, you'd very likely not see that message. Because serial works for you, I strongly doubt the warnings (first paragraph) are of any concern. > looks like some garbled output between bce0 and it seems to say: > bec0: link state changed to up > NFS ROOT: 10.38.0.14:/usr/local/nfsroot/freebsd-70-amd64 Please see http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/common_issues.txt for that problem. > my configuration as is: > /boot.config > -Dh Change this to -S9600 -Dh, and remove the lines from /boot/loader.conf. > /boot/loader.conf > boot_multicons="YES" > boot_serial="YES" > comconsole_speed="9600" > console="comconsole,vidconsole" > /etc/ttys > [mhettwer@blowfish] grep ttyd0 etc/ttys [16:10:55 on 07-12-13] > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure > > I believe my configuration is correct, isn't it? Looks correct. > Where's my login prompt? :) > > It's there with VGA output... conscontrol(8) might be able to tell you. It's very likely dedicated to the VGA system at this point. conscontrol(8) appears to simply read and parse the output of the kern.console sysctl. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |