amd64, 57600 serial install help

[Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim]

I assume you have compiled the bootblocks as per the instruction in the handbook.

Second, do you have more than one serial port on the box because FreeBSD can only work its serial console magic on only one port at a time.

If you redirect your IPMI serial console or just a normal serial console, take note it's interrupt number in the BIOS.

You'll need to append the 0x10 flags to your UART device in device.hints file if the you plug in the cable at a non-default port.

ihsan

On Jul 22, 2012, at 1:47 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote:

> 
> what am i doing wrong here?
> 
> From rebuilding the install iso and from the handbook instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html
> which suggests that in /boot/loader.conf only
> 
> console="comconsole"
> 
> is required,
> 
> i have tried this and also explicity setting speed in boot/loader.conf
> 
> console="comconsole"
> comconsole_speed="57600"
> 
> i have also tried having the settings i use to access via serial post install
> ie:
> 
> /etc/ttys:    ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600"  vt100   on secure
> and /boot/config:  -D
> 
> but same result, install stops ( or goes elsewhere at point below)
> 
> It does boot stage 1 and stage 2 then i get nothing?
> 
> test serial output:
> -----------------------------------------
> CD Loader 1.2
> r Configuration Menu ...
> Building the boot loader arguments
> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> Relocating the loader and the BTX
> Starting the BTX loader
> 
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
> Consoles: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS CD is cd0 in 5 sec......
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
> BIOS drive C: is disk1
> BIOS 640kB/3668736kB available memory
> 
> FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan 3 06:51:49 UTC 2012)
> àààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààà 
> 
> (nothing after this point)
> 
> 
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