Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:28:14 +0100 From: Milan Obuch <freebsd-stable@dino.sk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes Message-ID: <200912091728.15410.freebsd-stable@dino.sk> In-Reply-To: <E1NIPAr-000Li8-Pl@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:13:57 Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi, > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio), the input 'screwy' > at the selection of partition it is ignored, at the OK: prompt > from the boot (i had no kernel in the slice), the input is usually > doubled: > sshooww instead of show > which is probably similar to what is happening with boot0sio but it > only echoes # (the current bell). > > Once the kernel is up, the serial works fine. > > any ideas? > Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA and serial port, output is doubled. Similar behavior is observed on older WRAP boards, too. Milanhome | help
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