REMCONS broken after upgrading to 9.1-RC2

[Ziyan Maraikar]

On 22-Oct-2012, at 4:08 PM, Ziyan Maraikar wrote:

> [cross-posted to freebsd-questions]
> Hello all, 
> 
> I had a working REMCONS setup on Freebsd 9.0 for remote access on my HP DL165 G7 (LO100i). I recently built and installed 9.1-RC2 on a separate dataset on this machine's ZFS pool and merged in my existing configuration from 9.0. 
> 
> On 9.1-RC2 I no longer get a login prompt. However, I still do have access to the loader prompt and can see the kernel boot messages on the serial console. I built my GENERIC kernel and world using clang with default flags. I see that the kernel identifies the serial port getty has spawned on the port.

FYI, enabling the BIOS output on COM1 (REMCONS port) and setting appropriate baud/parity/stop bits  fixed the problem. I can't recall the exact CMOS setting that worked right now.
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Ziyan.