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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:38:03 +0000
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        nate@root.org
Subject:   Re: Serial console only works after reboot?
Message-ID:  <20040105003803.GB59922@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040104.164103.03383403.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20040103233044.N17367@root.org> <20040104.003330.54786488.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040104150929.Y19715@root.org> <20040104.164103.03383403.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:41:03PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Somewhere along the way, it gets set to 115200.  Maybe it is
> initialized to 115200 by the boot blocks?  I think once there's a
> divisor programmed into the serial port, the kernel console code
> doesn't change it.  I could be wrong about this, however....

Try installing boot0sio as your boot manager. It specifically requests 9600
8-N-1 via BIOS calls. However this does mean that boot selection has to
happen over COM1.

BMS



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