From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 18:02:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D94D106566B for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg30.ifdnrg.com (ifdnrg30.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985EE8FC0C for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpc11-sgyl31-2-0-cust300.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com [94.175.93.45]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg30.ifdnrg.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6LHkxaA053194 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:47:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <500AEB17.6030907@ifdnrg.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:47:03 +0100 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: amd64, 57600 serial install help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:02:55 -0000 what am i doing wrong here? From rebuilding the install iso and from the handbook instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html which suggests that in /boot/loader.conf only console="comconsole" is required, i have tried this and also explicity setting speed in boot/loader.conf console="comconsole" comconsole_speed="57600" i have also tried having the settings i use to access via serial post install ie: /etc/ttys: ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" vt100 on secure and /boot/config: -D but same result, install stops ( or goes elsewhere at point below) It does boot stage 1 and stage 2 then i get nothing? test serial output: ----------------------------------------- CD Loader 1.2 r Configuration Menu ... Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 in 5 sec...... BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 640kB/3668736kB available memory FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan 3 06:51:49 UTC 2012) àààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààà (nothing after this point) -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA -------------------------