From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 4 13:24:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE54437B71B for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp152.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.152]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f24LP8183711; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:23:59 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: RE: Using serial console to debug system hangs ... Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Manfred Antar Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Mar-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Manfred Antar wrote: > >> You have to recompile the boot stuff also, after changing the line in >> make.conf: >> # The default serial console speed is 9600. Set the speed to a larger value >> # for better interactive response. >> # >> BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED= 57600 >> >> Then cd /sys/boot ; make depend all install. >> I forget if you then need to relabel the disk or not. >> ie : >> disklabel -B da0 > > this worked great, thanks ...disklabel wasn't required, it appears ... It is to update boot2. However, you don't have to do that if you don't want. You can just boot on a normal console then break into the loader and type 'set console=comconsole' to switch over to the serial console. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message