Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 23, 2009, at 14:18, Thomas Backman wrote: First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if you don't reply directly. :) Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a machine running 8.0-BETA2 and one running WinXP using Hyperterminal.

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:04, Danny Braniss wrote: you need to set hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Regards/thanks, Thomas ___

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:10 PM 8/26/2009, Thomas Backman wrote: danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Try adding it to /boot/device.hints eg hint.uart.0.at=isa hint.uart.0.port=0x3F8 hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 hint.uart.0.irq=4

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:16, Mike Tancsa wrote: Or, if you want to use loader.conf, try hw.uart.console=io:0x3f8 ---Mike That solved it! Thanks a lot!! :) Regards, Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-24 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 23, 2009, at 23:18, Carl Chave wrote: Did you try booting with the keyboard disconnected from the FreeBSD machine? Perhaps the vidconsole is favored when a keyboard is detected? On a linux box I had, I would get serial output from Grub, lose it during kernel load and then get a login

Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Thomas Backman
First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if you don't reply directly. :) Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a machine running 8.0-BETA2 and one running WinXP using Hyperterminal. My settings: /boot/loader.conf: boot_multicons=YES

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/23/09, Thomas Backman seren...@exscape.org wrote: First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if you don't reply directly. :) Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a machine running 8.0-BETA2 and one running WinXP using Hyperterminal.

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 23, 2009, at 20:25, Tim Judd wrote: On 8/23/09, Thomas Backman seren...@exscape.org wrote: First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if you don't reply directly. :) Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a machine running

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Carl Chave
Did you try booting with the keyboard disconnected from the FreeBSD machine? Perhaps the vidconsole is favored when a keyboard is detected? On a linux box I had, I would get serial output from Grub, lose it during kernel load and then get a login once the OS was up, much like what you describe.