I have a dual PIII Intel L440gx+ (VA Linux) server. I am running CURRENT cvsupped a few hours ago.
This motherboard provides access to the BIOS via sio1. When booting, the serial BIOS shows everything that's happening until the point of booting the kernel (where it seems to switch video modes to have a bright white character set rather than the dull white/grey characters used initially). 1) Is there a way to prevent the FreeBSD kernel from ever switching into this different video mode, thus allowing me to continue to use the built-in serial terminal? The machine is a headless server, I don't care if video works as long as I can pull out a serial terminal. Furthermore, dmesg shows: -------- sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A -------- While Google shows several other users seeing same output, I have been unable to find a post that clearly explained what the cause of this "not in bitmap" error is. While sio1 is used by the serial BIOS and therefore reasonably could be expected to cause some error, sio0 should work just fine. 2) Even if the above errors are harmless, how do I make them go away? TIA, --Lucky To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
