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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:46:57 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), ahd@kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386/2984: serial console speed goes to hell during boot
Message-ID:  <19970314094657.QJ50041@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703140600.WAA26749@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Bruce Evans on Mar 13, 1997 22:00:02 -0800
References:  <199703140600.WAA26749@freefall.freebsd.org>

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

>  >	When booting the 2.2 GAMMA release using a serial console
>  >	the output (to an IBM PS/1 previously successfully used
>  >	for a serial console for 2.1.5-RELEASE for another 386),
>  >	output is normal 9600 bps output until about the time the
>  >	NPU is detected.  Then, output slows to a crawl (~ 1
>  >	character/second) until shutdown ... the last two lines
>  >	before reboot are printed at a normal speed (again), implying
>  >	the hardware is (still) fine.
>  
>  Check that nothing in /etc/rc.serial touches the console port.

But rc.serial is run towards the end of /etc/rc, not right after the
npx probe?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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