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On 02/21/13 13:56, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 22/02/2013, at 2:19, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any hints?
>>
>> Rather than using all these hints, just use these three in loader.conf:
>>
>> console="comconsole vidconsole"
>> console_speed=115200
>> console_port="0x<blah>"  (where <blah> is the correct I/O port for COM3, 0x3e8 
>> maybe?)
> 
> 
> No dice :(
> 
> I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either.

What does "dmesg | grep uart" show?  I have a PCI serial card whose
serial port I'm using as a console.  I had to setup comconsole_pcidev,
comconsole_port, and comconsole_speed properly in loader.conf to get it
to work.

Regards,
Navdeep