serial console on ultra axe

[Peter Larkowski]

>> I upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 (stable cvsup) yesterday.  I built
>> a GENERIC
>> kernel with the audiocs driver added.  I read UPDATING and
>> took note of
>> the change to uart, updating /etc/ttys accordingly.
>> Unfortunately I get
>> nothing on the serial console after:
>>
>> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command
>> prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... nothing to autoload
>> yet. jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0048000.
>>
>> It should be noted that I've never been able to use the
>> default /etc/ttys.
>> I've always had to start a getty on /dev/console, which doesn't work
>> anymore either.  In any case I'm not even getting kernel
>> messages.  Any
>> ideas?  The machine boots normally.  as soon as the disk stops
>> thrashing, I can ssh right in.
>
> Probably related to this issue here
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-May/014509.html ? It
> was reported while I was in the middle of a cvsup (on x86) over the weekend.
> I got away fine, didn't seem to have any noticeable problems (apart from an
> annoying BIOS default I'd never noticed before).
>
Well, it looks like that was related to keyboard input, and this is 
console messages and everything.  Plus that seems to have been resolved 
by Sunday, and I cvsuped yesterday morning (2005-05-10 ~08:00 EDT). 
Thanks for the heads up though.

-p