A20/keybord/no-keyboard

[Danny Braniss]

> 
> 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.

well, the host was not booting ...

with BTX_SERIAL, btx does not compile, and for 'completness' it would be nice
to have all console output, anyways my problem was not btx related.

danny