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From: Neil Ludban <nludban@pokey.salientsystems.com>
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To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: problems booting with serial console
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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


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