Serial console broken on RELENG_8 ?

[Marten Vijn]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 16:47 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are noticing that serial no longer functions the same way it did in
> 7.X when using -h or -D in /boot.config
> 
> What we are seeing is this:
> 
> Boot:  1
> /boot.config:  -h
> Consoles: serial port
> BIOS drive C: is disk0
> BIOS 639kB/490496kB available memory
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (sullrich at freebsdcurrent.livebsd.com, Wed Sep 23 20:26:13 UTC 2009)
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x789ca4 data=0x149434+0x80de0 -
> |
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> \
> 
> And then the serial console stops functioning.
> 
> This is on PC-Engine ALIX boards, VIA Embedded and anything else that
> I can find here that only features a serial console (Nexcom, too).
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

hi,

Make sure mergemaster has run properly,

the devicenames have changed,  
7.x => 8.x
cuad0 => cuau0
ttyd0 => ttyu0

I have serial support working under 8.0 RC1 for ALIX 3d2.

Try booting a 7.x kernel to fix files like /etc/ttys and so before
booting 8.x.


cheers
Marten


 



> 
> My apologies if this is the wrong list.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Scott
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