A20/keybord/no-keyboard

[John Baldwin]

On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:47 AM, Danny Braniss wrote:

>> If the VGA driver is present, the system will assume you want to use a
>> VGA console, unless you force one of the serial ports to become the
>> system console by setting the appropriate hint in device.hints or
>> loader.conf as documented in the sio(4) man page.  For instance:
>>
>> hint.sio.0.flags="0x30"
>>
>> forces sio0 to become the system console regardless of the presence of
>> a display adapter.
>>
>> You may also have to tell the boot code and loader to use the serial
>> console; see their respective manual pages.
>>
>
> im using hint.sio.0.flags="0x20", and still, only after i removed the 
> vga
> from the config file did i get the console output on the serial line.
>
> i'm using boot0sio, so the boot is also talking via the serial, but 
> the BTX
> is still using the vga, compiling it to use the serial gave errors.

BTX_SERIAL will not work with boot2 (hard drive boot blocks) due to 
space
constraints.  It does work for /boot/loader and pxeboot however.  Note 
that
it only outputs meaningful text if it crashes anyway, so I wouldn't 
worry
about it.

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