From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 11 08:58:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671C81065696 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:58:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7FA8FC1E for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3kkD1d0040b6N64ACkllHk; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:45:45 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3kll1d0043S48mS8PkllR3; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:45:45 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E86FD1E3035; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:45:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:45:43 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091111084543.GA84067@icarus.home.lan> References: <8ffccde70911090952s2349c633u61c96e5183cb8116@mail.gmail.com> <8ffccde70911110014ld74bafat1f3d8d3c514b136a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911110014ld74bafat1f3d8d3c514b136a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:58:55 -0000 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:14:05AM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 18:52, Sven Hazejager wrote: > > I'm pulling my hair out on this one! Can't get the serial console to > > work with nanoBSD, either 7.2-p4 or 7-STABLE. A 8.0 nanoBSD image > > works fine (which I have not created myself). The symptom is that all > > kernel output goes to VGA. Whatever I do. This happens in VMware > > Player (where I actually see the VGA output) and on my ALIX > > (Soekris-like) board (which does not have a VGA card). > > PROBLEM SOLVED! > > In an attempt to minimize FreeBSD for nanoBSD I had WITHOUT_FORTH=true > in my /etc/src.conf. That apparently breaks the passing of boot flags > to the kernel, which causes the kernel to use the VGA output even > though boot.config has "-h" and console=comconsole in the loader. This would actually break a large portion of the FreeBSD bootstraps. I'd advocate that WITHOUT_FORTH be removed until the bootstraps are upgraded to something that doesn't rely on forth (if/when that ever happens). Otherwise, someone may want modify the framework involving src.conf to state that if WITHOUT_FORTH is defined, to bail on a build. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |