From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 19:53:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431BC1065675 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:53:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F309D8FC08 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl8 with SMTP id l8so3249946yen.13 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:53:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=WhTUplyuI0uPXb+T4zmggfcEpCNm5Eq1phYbj9IrKHY=; b=waGN7khqVwBTRYKpQZDmEJ/N6FsfRevZ22DbsjrOlbeserc5eA+mnboZMg/k1oAMJc ZjuYsq9U/7ZiJ0C23geybwfjoKOqPmj+18arhpx64NQbA9hiSHCAIGbyn3VBB8OUpEFK 4ks8nzrhsMtjaNQRgFoxIqcjP4qn+LXHQZ+7qtKzSFqR9ra61c0TrdMtZf0nvwX47yxx szyGNpEiyy7aIdhsvTDXZoXARRZgLE/0Pr01JA996Wm5vuEkM+WcnQN5XekoD0rGHZBE Ou+m6FTG0NRYEAUe0c2a7CgNe4/d9qOR2YML/fQbjk5hUwhjW/+W3E1k+y9c/jM5WtqK rfcw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.17.226 with SMTP id r2mr7049305igd.47.1339444424169; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.76.84 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:53:44 -0400 Message-ID: From: Brian McCann To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Booting from ZFS with serial console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:53:45 -0000 Hi all. I am in desperate need of some help with ZFS (maybe GPT) and serial consoles. I use 19200 for my console speed for everything, so I recompiled the boot blocks using "BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED="19200" " in /etc/make.conf. I then ran this to install new blocks to my two drives in the mirror pair: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad4 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad6 If the keyboard is plugged in when the machine starts up, all is good. With the keyboard unplugged, I get a small error "dump" followed by "BTX Halted". I tried this with the files from the install DVD, and the same thing happens..."BTX Halted" without a keyboard plugged in. In both cases, /boot.config has : "-P -S19200". I tried changing it to "-Dh -S19200", and I get the "BTX Halted" on every boot now. Can someone please shed some light on why it's crashing like this? I'm fairly confident this behavior is a bug and not "by design"...but I can't believe that this bug would not be noticed up until now. Thanks! --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"