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On 02/21/13 14:42, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 22/02/2013, at 8:37, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
> uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
> uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 flags 0x30 on acpi0
> 
> The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that doesn't use it which is the problem.

And what do you see in kenv | egrep 'uart|com' ?