Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:10:19 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart) Message-ID: <e7db6d980809112310l298d7aaan5760c29f2fc052d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com> References: <p06240801c4ef771564d6@128.113.24.47> <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> After I boot up, the only /dev/tty* devices I have are ttyv0 >> through ttyvf. I've installed the new /etc/ttys and a new >> /boot/device.hints, though frankly device.hints has always >> been a magic-box to me, so I just blindly copied what was in >> GENERIC.hints and changed hint.uart.0.flags to be "0x30". > > uart(4) does tell you when it's the console: > > uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 > uart0: [FILTER] > uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) > > The first question is: do you see a line like the one above? > If not (most likely), try to boot explicitly with a serial > console (i.e. set boot_serial=yes at the loader prompt or > boot with -h). He probably also needs to update his /boot/device.hints file. (change sio to uart) -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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