On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 5:56 PM +1100 3/1/08, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > Every character typed by the FreeBSD boot process is erased after > typing, at least using the console programs I have tried. It has > always been this way. (I don't build my own kernels.) > >The Soekris BIOS talks at 9600 baud and FreeBSD defaults to 19200 so > >you might need to change baud rates in mid boot. > No, it's not that. I see each character come up and disappear. As I > said, I see the countdown happening.
If your net4801 has the comBIOS serial speed set to 19200 (the default), at a certain point in the FreeBSD boot process, the default FreeBSD configuration will change to 9600. If your terminal [emulator] is still set to 19200, you may see garbage, but you may also see nothing. > >But it doesn't sound like you're even getting that far. What are you > >installing from and to? > > 7.0 RELEASE, from CD onto a CF card on a different machine. > > This might be a lot clearer if there was a simple way to get the > FreeBSD boot stuff to leave its text on the serial console in a way > that I could see. Am I missing some bit of passed-down wisdom here? It does, if you configure it properly to use a serial console, but that is not the default. The handbook section on Serial Console is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html When you do 24.6.2 step 3, also check the speed setting in /etc/ttys matches what you have in comBIOS and your terminal. Note you can do those commands while the CF card is mounted on your "different machine", just prepend the mount point to the file paths mentioned. The handbood doesn't mention it, but you probably want to set dcons and all the ttyv0-8 to off in /etc/ttys. -Jed _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
