Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:00:33 -0500 From: Loh John Wu <ljwu@sandvine.com> To: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: console redirection to serial in Freebsd 5.1 Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370283A45E@mail.sandvine.com>
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So I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.1 from a CD (ISO). Now I'm trying to turn on console redirection in my image, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. I read the article on turning on console redirection at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu p.html but I think that doc was geared towards a 4.X release as it says that specific sio options need to be set in the kernel config file. However, reading the man page on the sio driver in 5.1-release man pages at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sio&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Fre eBSD+5.1-RELEASE&format=html it seems that we just need to set those configs that used to be in the kernel conf file in 4.7 in the /boot/devices.hints file. So I've set these options in the hints file to turn on the serial redirection with the flag 0x90 hint.sio.0.at="isa" hint.sio.0.port="0x3F8" hint.sio.0.flags="0x90" hint.sio.0.irq="4" hint.sio.1.at="isa" hint.sio.1.port="0x2F8" hint.sio.1.irq="3" hint.sio.2.at="isa" hint.sio.2.disabled="1" hint.sio.2.port="0x3E8" hint.sio.2.irq="5" hint.sio.3.at="isa" hint.sio.3.disabled="1" hint.sio.3.port="0x2E8" hint.sio.3.irq="9" I've also set in the /boot.config file the -P flag to set the console to the serial console in the presence of a keyboard. and I've changed /etc/ttys to allow for the ttyd0 as well. I am using the generic FreeBSD 5.1 kernel with the generic 5.1 kernel config options, but from what I read, I think I can still enable serial console redirection with the generic kernel. Any ideas as to what I might be missing to have the redirection to teh serial console. Thanks, John
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