Serial Console Help Needed

[Jay]

On 11/29/05, Brian McCann <bjmccann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.  I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console
> setup on 5.4.  I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to
> 19200, added "set console="comconsole" " to /boot/loader.rc, turned on
> /dev/ttyd0 and ttyd1 in /etc/ttys, and added -P to /boot.config.  I
> can see the kernel messages, then it looks like when rc runs, it
> stops.  I don't see anything beyond "Mounting root from
> ufs:/dev/da0s1a", until I get my getty (which, for some reason is
> ttyd1, not ttyd0).  The config for sio0 in dmesg shows "sio0:
> <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on
> acpi0".
>
> Any ideas?  I'm out of good ones...
>
> Thanks,
> --Brian
>
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> Brian McCann
> Systems & Network Administrator, K12USA
>
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try add nc flag(no carrier) to gettytab entry
like this..
/etc/gettytab:
serialcon:\
        :np:nc:hw:tc=19200-baud:

/etc/ttys:
ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty serialcon"  vt100   on  secure
(or ttyd1..?)

it fixed same trouble on mine.

btw, I don't know why your sio0 is 0x2f8 irq3 .. isn't it supposed to
be detected as sio1?
If you are going to use boot0sio too, you need to add
'BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT=0x2F8' to /etc/make.conf then
recompile/install /sys/boot then install boot0sio using boot0cfg(8).