Serial console only works after reboot?

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:41:03PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Somewhere along the way, it gets set to 115200.  Maybe it is
> initialized to 115200 by the boot blocks?  I think once there's a
> divisor programmed into the serial port, the kernel console code
> doesn't change it.  I could be wrong about this, however....

Try installing boot0sio as your boot manager. It specifically requests 9600
8-N-1 via BIOS calls. However this does mean that boot selection has to
happen over COM1.

BMS