Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sven Hazejager s...@hazejager.nl writes: I'm having trouble getting 7.2-p4 to run. I'm using nanoBSD, either under VMware using a virtual serial null-modem or on an Alix Soekris-like serial-only CF-based device, both show this problem: my serial console does not display kernel messages, they

Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Sven Hazejager
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 17:52, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Checking the obvious: syslog.conf is configured to send the messages to the console? Haven't touched syslog.conf but this all happens before syslog is even starting. The problem is that the console is

Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/9/09, Sven Hazejager s...@hazejager.nl wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 17:52, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Checking the obvious: syslog.conf is configured to send the messages to the console? Haven't touched syslog.conf but this all happens before syslog

7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-08 Thread Sven Hazejager
All, I'm having trouble getting 7.2-p4 to run. I'm using nanoBSD, either under VMware using a virtual serial null-modem or on an Alix Soekris-like serial-only CF-based device, both show this problem: my serial console does not display kernel messages, they all go to the VGA console! I'm using