From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 17 15:39:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl (amsfep13-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE6F37B407 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootsr.com ([212.187.13.238]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20011017223938.UFGG18584.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@rootsr.com>; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:39:38 +0200 Message-ID: <3BCE08A9.4050007@rootsr.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:39:37 +0200 From: Hans de Hartog Organization: rootsr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010621 X-Accept-Language: nl, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial console References: <20011009113258.D35681-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Hardie wrote: > I have not been able to get the serial console to work. RELENG_4_3. New > install from CD followed by a cvsup. I have: > > /boot.config: > -h > > /boot/loader.conf: > userconfig_script_load="YES" > console="comconsole" > > I have tried with the kernel built with the flags for sio0 set to 0x10 > and 0x30. > > In all cases, the system boots on the video console. If I interrupt it > during the early boot and give the -h manually, then it uses the serial > console properly until the next boot. I get the impression that > /boot.conf is not being read because if I put garbage in it there is no > visible effect. > > I have researched the archives and tried the things mentioned without > any success. Works fine with me, if you: 1) make sure it's /boot.config (and NOT /boot.conf) 2) It contains just "-h" (without double quotes) 3) sio0 flags are 0x10 or 0x30 in your kernel 4) Have some device on your COM1-port that talks with 9600 baud, no parity and 1 stopbit 5) If you connect a serial port of another machine to COM1, make sure there's a properly wired NULL-modem in between Hope this helps. Got some VGA-cards for sale :-) Hans de Hartog To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message