From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 0: 8:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C05D37B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.100] (cs-wla2-p18.lafn.org [192.168.16.18] (may be forged)) by zoon.lafn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9I78LS96009; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200110172324.JAA22742@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <200110172324.JAA22742@lightning.itga.com.au> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:08:04 -0700 To: Gregory Bond From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: serial console Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 9:24 +1000 10/18/01, Gregory Bond wrote: >If this is an old machine that was installed with an old version and >has been upgraded, then you will probably be running the original boot blocks. >Try installing the latest boot blocks with disklabel. I see in the source that boot2 reads the /boot.config file. Since it basically prints a line immediately after reading a command and I am not seeing that line, I suspect boot2 is not being used. Here is what I see during the boot. ends with: Verifying DMI Pool Data ........... F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Default: F1 - It then sits there for a minute or so. If I type a key then I get >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: entering a -h there causes the serial console to work. If I don't type a key then I get: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard etc. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message