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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:02:19 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any problems with serial consoles?
Message-ID:  <20000410100219.A96316@myhakas.matti.ee>
In-Reply-To: <200004111252.HAA20496@aurora.sol.net>; from jgreco@ns.sol.net on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:52:41AM -0500
References:  <200004111252.HAA20496@aurora.sol.net>

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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:52:41AM -0500, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:

> I've a continuing (multi-year) issue with serial consoles on SMP machines.
> 
> The general issue is that, during bootup, the console "loses it" and seems
> to switch baud rates or something, and all user I/O becomes garbage.
> However, kernel messages continue to print out correctly(!).

I've two Tyan S1837-UANG boards which work very well with serial console
at 57600 and minicom on the other end. I've set CONSPEED=57600 option
for kernel config, built and installed /usr/src/sys/boot with
/etc/make.conf including BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=57600. I think the latter
is necessary for getting bootstrap to know the initial speed, otherwise
it defaults to 9600. Finally set '-h' in /boot.config,  disabled getty's
on ttyv's and enabled getty on ttyd0. I'm using minicom -o on the other
end. But you're running 3.x and up not -current as I am, so there can be
differences.
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
vallo@matti.ee


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