Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 10:10:47 -0500 From: Neil Ludban <nludban@pokey.salientsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting with serial console Message-ID: <3A02D577.589FD8AE@salientsystems.com> References: <200011022227.eA2MRlF01506@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > I think I've nuked your original message (sorry), but this looks like you > have a BIOS running a screen-scraper video emulation, but don't have the > bootstrap/loader actually aimed at the serial port. > > If that's the case, put > > -h > > in /boot.config on the boot disk and try again, or if you're not running > with a filesystem, you'll need to tweak boot2 to set the default console > to serial. Yup, this got rid of the escape sequences. Actually, it got rid of everything. Rebuilding boot2 with the console on COM2 put it back to normal :-) It's now starting BTX (which also needs to be rebuilt for COM2), and says it's loading the kernel, then the whole system hangs. On to a new problem... Thanks for the help. --Neil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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