From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 07:47:20 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 CF725106566B for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:47:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8498C8FC08 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1NJ0De-000Mn5-H7; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:47:18 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Jim Pingle In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:09:01 -0500 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:47:18 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes 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: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:47:20 -0000 > On 12/10/2009 2:32 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > >> Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). > >> Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, > >> redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA > >> and serial port, output is doubled. Similar behavior is observed on older > >> WRAP boards, too. > > > > I have tried ALIX-1 and 2 > > here is an example: > > > > PC Engines ALIX.3 v0.99h > > 640 KB Base Memory > > 261120 KB Extended Memory > > Waiting for HDD ... > > > > 01F0 Master 848A SanDisk SDCFH2-002G > > Phys C/H/S 3970/16/63 Log C/H/S 992/64/63 > > > > 1 FreeBSD > > 2 FreeBSD > > 3 FreeBSD > > > > 6 PXE > > Boot: 1 > > > > any key I hit, it echoes as # and is ignored. > > at this point the kernel is not yet involved, so having vga+kb support > > is not the reason, though I will try out the alix-3, which has vga support, and > > a different BIOS soon. i have now, and the results are: - serial works - bios boot skips boot0, and goes straight to boot slice 1. The good side is that PXE boot works, but switching to boot from disk is a pain, on other systems, hitting ^C at the dhcp will stop it, and the boot will continue from disk, which if fails (forgot some critical setup :-), reboot, fix, boot ^C ... > > A lot of users have seen that happen, but typically it has been cleared > up by using ALIX BIOS v0.99h, which that box already appears to have, > and setting the BIOS for CHS mode. > > I haven't tried any of the ALIX models with VGA, but I have heard they > are working as long as you set the BIOS for APM power management. it's actualy setting Power Management to anything but ACPI. > (See > the previous -STABLE thread titled "8.0-rc2 dropped hardsupport". > > Jim cheers, danny