From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 13:26:32 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 459A137B407 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.100] (cs-wla2-p28.lafn.org [192.168.16.28] (may be forged)) by zoon.lafn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9IKQKA58261; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200110181636.f9IGaZ686886@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200110181636.f9IGaZ686886@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:25:49 -0700 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: serial console Cc: freebsd-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 First of all I want to thank all those who have responded to my problem. I finally have it working. However, I don't understand what was going on with the boot process. I went into /boot and modified all the forth prints to be very unique. Nothing changed when booting. All of the original messages were still there. I verified that the original messages only existed in /usr/src/sys. Then I disabled the disk on the second ide bus by removing both power and signal cables. The system would not boot at all. The BIOS went looking on the ethernet for a net boot. The boot order in the BIOS was completely ignored. Apparently the system was booting from the second bus disk, but actually starting up the primary disk. After fooling around with the BIOS, I finally got it to try and boot of the master disk (now the only one). Once it did that, then the serial console worked fine. All the altered messages showed properly. I then put everything back like it should be and just use a -h in /boot.config and it now properly uses the serial console. I don't know if that way or the way outlined below is the proper one, but boot.config seems to work so I will stay with that for now. At 18:36 +0200 10/18/01, Oliver Fromme wrote: >Hans de Hartog wrote: > > Something else you might want to try: put > > -P in /boot.config and disconnect your > > keyboard during the BIOS-blabla > >/boot.config is obsolete and doesn't work with loader(8). > >I'd suggest you write the following line into /boot/loader.conf: >kernel_options="-h" > > > > Forgot to tell: I'm NOT using your > > > >>>> /boot/loader.conf: > >>>> userconfig_script_load="YES" > >This is for setting ISA device parameters. > > >>>> console="comconsole" > >This is meaningful only to the loader itself, AFAIK. > > >Regards > Oliver > -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message