I am currently using 9600 for everything, including the BIOS. The garbled output consists of a bunch of garbled-looking output that scrolls by on the bottom line of the console very rapidly and then stops with the terminal's cursor indented 5 spaces on the bottom line.
It does appear that the kernel is using the serial line, but it is not scrolling the buffer. I need to find a means of recompiling the loader according to the "Fix the Terminal Emulation for the Serial Console" section at http://www.michaelbrumm.com/how-to-install-freebsd-pxe.html as that may be the issue. Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:12:20AM -0400, Ryan Rawdon wrote: > [...] > >> Building the boot loader >> arguments >> Relocating the loader and the >> BTX >> Starting the BTX >> loader >> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x6fd45c data=0xad540+0x5a680 >> syms=[0x4+0x701f0+0x4+]/ >> [useless kernel output here] >> > > What do you mean by useless kernel output? > So the kernel does use the serial? > Then it is likely a bps rate problem. > The kernel defaults to 9600bps, but the soekris does not. > If you use the BIOS rate in your terminal programm then you will not > get useable characters once the kernel switches to 9600. > One way is to switch the BIOS to 9600 as well. > Otherwise set FreeBSD to the BIOS rate. > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
