Lost my serial console! :-)

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:03:31 -0800 (PST)
"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > 
> > On 11/20/2018 09:57, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > .....
> > >> Lots.? I have several 3Bs, one 3B+ (since that's the current model), and
> > >> a passel of 2s. :-)? The 2s are fine but I'm building 11.STABLE for
> > >> those.? Can't for the 3s, as the code to run those isn't in 11.
> > > Ok which of PI3B or PI3B+ or is it both that you are having
> > > serial console issues on?
> > >
> > > Also can you try:
> > > 	http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-RC1-arm64-aarch64-RPI3.img.xz
> > > on both boards and report success/failure/problems?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > 
> > RC1 boots on both and I have a serial console on both.?
> 
> Thank you for the testing, I am ccing this reply to RE@ so they
> know we have at least 1 data point that says we can boot our
> release canadate image on both a RPI3B and RPI3B+,
> that is valuable data.
> 
> > I'll dig through
> > the .img that Crochet builds and see what I can figure out -- it must be
> > doing something hinky somewhere and best guess is that it's probably the
> > DOS partition that has something wrong in it.? As far as I can tell the
> > 3B+ doesn't boot at all on the Crochet build (but I can't be sure since
> > I have no console -- it never does enable the Ethernet port as I never
> > see the link light come on) but the 3B does boot and come up -- just no
> > serial.
> > 
> > I suspect there's a bit of pooch-hosing in the Crochet board file or
> > (more likely) whatever gets into the dos partition.? If I can figure it
> > out I'll submit a pull request back at the Crochet people to fix it....
> > holiday might get in the way of me screwing with it for a bit here.
> 
> I wonder if it has caught up with the lua loader?

 Can you stop implying that's the lualoader everytime someone has a
problem ?
 The fix for crochet is to add boot_multicons=YES to loader.conf

 See https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=336999 for
why.

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> 
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>