On 22/02/2013, at 9:30, Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:18:51AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> On 22/02/2013, at 9:15, Navdeep Parhar <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 >>>> uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 >>>> uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 flags 0x30 on acpi0 >>>> >>>> The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that doesn't >>>> use it which is the problem. > > It might be not the serial port, to which the loader talks. The supermicro > boards I dealt with, have a feature of VGA text mode redirection to the > serial port. This is how bios redirection usually works.
Ahh OK, sneaky sneaky.. My has 'Forever', 'Until boot loader', and 'never', so I selected the second one. > You could look at some bios knob which controls the point where the > said redirection is stopped. It should be like 'after the OS takes > the control', and not 'forever'. For BIOS, the loader is OS. I just tried rebuilding the boot blocks to work at 115200 like so.. cd /usr/src/sys/boot make BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200 sudo make install sudo gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -b /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/da0 However no luck either (with the above change) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
