Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:45:43 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE Message-ID: <20091111084543.GA84067@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911110014ld74bafat1f3d8d3c514b136a@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ffccde70911090952s2349c633u61c96e5183cb8116@mail.gmail.com> <8ffccde70911110014ld74bafat1f3d8d3c514b136a@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:14:05AM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 18:52, Sven Hazejager <sven@hazejager.nl> wrote: > > I'm pulling my hair out on this one! Can't get the serial console to > > work with nanoBSD, either 7.2-p4 or 7-STABLE. A 8.0 nanoBSD image > > works fine (which I have not created myself). The symptom is that all > > kernel output goes to VGA. Whatever I do. This happens in VMware > > Player (where I actually see the VGA output) and on my ALIX > > (Soekris-like) board (which does not have a VGA card). > > PROBLEM SOLVED! > > In an attempt to minimize FreeBSD for nanoBSD I had WITHOUT_FORTH=true > in my /etc/src.conf. That apparently breaks the passing of boot flags > to the kernel, which causes the kernel to use the VGA output even > though boot.config has "-h" and console=comconsole in the loader. This would actually break a large portion of the FreeBSD bootstraps. I'd advocate that WITHOUT_FORTH be removed until the bootstraps are upgraded to something that doesn't rely on forth (if/when that ever happens). Otherwise, someone may want modify the framework involving src.conf to state that if WITHOUT_FORTH is defined, to bail on a build. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20091111084543.GA84067>