Lost my serial console! :-)

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> I built a 12-Stable pull for the Pi3 using Crochet this afternoon and it
> appeared to hang on boot (never started the kernel.)? In fact it did --
> but the com console has disappeared so as soon as the kernel was loaded
> I lost all output to the serial port.
> 
> It's running; if I connect an ethernet cable and there's a DHCP server
> out there it will get an address and I can then connect and log into it.
> 
> I tried setting it in the environment in uboot (and doing a "saveenv"),
> but that didn't work, nor did setting console="comconsole" in
> /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> This used to come up by default but no longer does.... I'm obviously
> missing something stupid and would certainly like to fix it. :-)

You might check what all the various files on the 12.0-RC1 RPI3
image has, I just tested it and both the serial console and HDMI
video w/USB keyboard works.

Crochet may of not caught up with some thing.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org