serial console "detection" during boot

Olivier Cochard-Labbé olivier at cochard.me
Sat Sep 22 08:40:46 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> With this patch I am able to boot with
> boot_multicons="YES"
> console="vidconsole,comconsole"
> in loader.conf on hardware where serial ports are disabled in BIOS.
> Previously loader would just hang trying to apply the console setting.

I confirm that I can boot under Virtualbox without serial port
configured with your patch and dual console configuration in
/boot/loader.conf.

But, I've still the same hang problem with a system configured for
booting with dual console configuration like that:
echo "-D" > /boot.config

Regards,

Olivier


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