Jed Clear wrote on 1-3-2008 13:50: > On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Jan Hoevers wrote: >> Graham Menhennitt wrote on 1-3-2008 7:56: >>> Paul Hoffman wrote: >>>> Greetings again. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801 with >>>> no luck. After the (unreadable over serial) boot prompt, during the >>>> 10-second countdown, I hit return. The cursor goes almost to the left >>>> end of the screen and stops. It doesn't respond to typing. >>>> Eventually, the system reboots. >>> I had no problem installing a pre-release version of 7.0 a few months ago. >>> Why is the serial output unreadable? The Soekris BIOS talks at 9600 baud >>> and FreeBSD defaults to 19200 so you might need to change baud rates in mid >>> boot. I also needed to disable DMA as a few recent messages have mentioned. >>> But it doesn't sound like you're even getting that far. What are you >>> installing from and to? >> It's the other way round actually. Soekris bios defaults to 19200 baud >> and FreeBSD to 9600. >> An easy solution is to set the bios to 9600, no need for acrobatics like >> changing baud rate in mid boot. > > Along the same lines, you need to tell FreeBSD to use a serial console. > Otherwise it assumes you have a graphics adapter and keyboard attached. I > forget off the top of my head the incantation needed, but it's in the > Handbook.
Create a file /boot.config with -P in it. Activate ttyd0 in /etc/ttys. That's all. You may want to deactivate ttyv0 to ttyv8 in /etc/ttys. Jan _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
