serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart)

[Peter Wemm]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>> After I boot up, the only /dev/tty* devices I have are ttyv0
>> through ttyvf.  I've installed the new /etc/ttys and a new
>> /boot/device.hints, though frankly device.hints has always
>> been a magic-box to me, so I just blindly copied what was in
>> GENERIC.hints and changed hint.uart.0.flags to be "0x30".
>
> uart(4) does tell you when it's the console:
>
> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
> uart0: [FILTER]
> uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
>
> The first question is: do you see a line like the one above?
> If not (most likely), try to boot explicitly with a serial
> console (i.e. set boot_serial=yes at the loader prompt or
> boot with -h).

He probably also needs to update his /boot/device.hints file.
(change sio to uart)

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