FBSD 10.1 + serial access (broken?)

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Sat Jan 17 21:30:10 UTC 2015


Warren Block:

> > The one annoying problem I have with this setup is that the machine
> > will not reboot if the console isn't hooked up to a terminal.
> > Judging from the point where it continues when I plug in a cable,
> > boot(8) appears to be stuck without DCD and/or DSR.
> 
> Can't those be tied together on the computer side to fake it?

Yes, looping DTR back to DCD+DSR should take care of it.  I'm just
annoyed that this should be necessary and I wonder if I'm missing
something because I don't see other people asking about this issue.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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