On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:39:10 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote > At 5:56 PM +1100 3/1/08, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > >I had no problem installing a pre-release version of 7.0 a few months ago. > > That's good to hear > > >Why is the serial output unreadable? > > 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. > > >I also needed to disable DMA as a few recent messages have mentioned. > > Yep, did that. > > >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?
I believe you need to recompile the boot loader. There's a nice guide here: http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=94 yuri _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
