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Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE

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	Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE by Sven Hazejager-3 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message All, 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). boot0 is boot0sio, boot.config contains -h and the loader works fine over the serial port. console=comconsole there so that should work, right? No, because still my kernel outputs everything to VGA... I'm using the sio device. Even tried putting flags on 0x30 -> no difference at all. Tried the uart device and removing sio from my kernel but that resulted in having NO serial ports at all... Any help is much appreciated! Sven _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@..."
	Re: Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE by Daniel Braniss-2 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message > All, > > 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). > > boot0 is boot0sio, boot.config contains -h and the loader works fine > over the serial port. console=comconsole there so that should work, > right? No, because still my kernel outputs everything to VGA... > > I'm using the sio device. Even tried putting flags on 0x30 -> no > difference at all. Tried the uart device and removing sio from my > kernel but that resulted in having NO serial ports at all... > > Any help is much appreciated! > > Sven hi, put hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" in /boot/device.hints, or better, make sure you have an updated one from /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints another thing, make sure the speed/bauds is correct, else you probably wont see any output either in /boot/loader.conf you need console="comconsole,vidconsole" and comconsole_speed="115200" to set the speed. to get a login you will need, in /etc/ttys: ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.115200" dialup on secure hope this helps danny _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@..."
	Re: Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE by Sven Hazejager-3 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 18:52, Sven Hazejager <sven@...> 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. Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Sven _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@..."
	Re: Serial console not working in 7.2-p4 and 7.2-STABLE by Jeremy Chadwick :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:14:05AM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 18:52, Sven Hazejager <sven@...> 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 Networking http://www.parodius.com/ \| \| UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA \| \| Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB \| _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@..."