Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:09:44 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> 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: <20080912100944.GF1147@cicely7.cicely.de> 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 08:39:29PM -0700, 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). If I got him right then he has not /dev/ttyu* at all. Sounds more like he is missing something in his kernel config. -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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