From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 14:36:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C429B16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:36:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web50708.mail.yahoo.com (web50708.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5116E43D1F for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:36:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from w8hdkim@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040713143612.53207.qmail@web50708.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.40.135.37] by web50708.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:36:12 PDT Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:36:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kim Culhan To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: serial console stops just before login prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:36:13 -0000 Here are the details: Setup serial console as follows: o Added to /etc/make.conf BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED= 115200 BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT= 0x3F8 o make world;make install new kernel o write new bootblocks bsdlabel -B da0s1 o Added to /boot/loader.conf console="comconsole" When the machine boots the console output is directed to the serial port as expected (speed changed to 115200) up to this point: Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds. Tue Jul 13 10:05:06 EDT 2004 em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex At this point there is no login: prompt on the terminal. A login appears on the vga output of the machine and it is possible to login if its booted with the keyboard attached. If the keyboard is not attached at boot time, the login: prompt is displayed but attaching the keyboard at this point does not give keyboard control. If the machine is then rebooted, the console output associated with the reboot is displayed on the serial port: JJJboot() called on cpu#1 <-- 'JJJ' just some garbage chars Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 stopped syncing disks, buffers remaining... done Uptime: 4m30s Shutting down ACPI Rebooting... cpu_reset called on cpu#0 cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs Any more thoughts on this are greatly appreciated. -kim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com