From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 06:10:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB52B1065682 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:10:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EBA8FC12 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:10:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so671150wfg.7 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.48.14 with SMTP id v14mr1318702wfv.14.1221199819717; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.255.21 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:10:19 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" To: "Marcel Moolenaar" In-Reply-To: <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:10:21 -0000 On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar 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