How To Set Speed Of Serial Console In 5.4-RELEASE?

Drew Tomlinson drew at mykitchentable.net
Fri Jul 22 05:05:58 GMT 2005


On 7/21/2005 9:43 PM Glenn Dawson wrote:

> At 09:26 PM 7/21/2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
>> I have compiled two kernels and worlds in the 5.4-RELEASE source tree.
>> In /etc/make.conf, I have the line:
>>
>> BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200
>>
>> Yet the speed stays at 9600 baud.  This worked in version 4.  Do I 
>> need to do something different in version 5?
>
>
> According to the handbook section 20.6.5.1 you need to build and 
> install new boot blocks after adding that option to make.conf.


Thanks for your reply.  Don't boot blocks get compiled and installed as 
part of the make world and make kernel process?  I've built and 
installed world and kernel twice since adding that line to make.conf.  
As I recall, I didn't have to do this separately in 4.x.

Thanks,

Drew

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