From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 6 0:24:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles516.castles.com [208.214.165.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47859155A2 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01045; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001060830.AAA01045@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Archie Cobbs Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot serial console all blanks In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2000 10:11:23 PST." <200001051811.KAA22026@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:30:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Has anyone else seen this problem? > > The 2nd and 3rd stage boot loader output to the serial port is all > blanks. That is, every character is output as a blank -- you can > see them printing, and see the 10 second autoboot messages, but > they're all space characters. Nope. In your case, you're using a 'classic' boot2, correct? I'd be wondering if it wasn't a BIOS issue, since both boot2 and the loader use the BIOS for serial output. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message