FreeBSD 7.0 BETA4 no serial console

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> here's a snipped of a verbose boot:
> sio0: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio0: port may not be enabled

This is somewhat normal (depends on the system), and can sometimes
even function normally (as is the case on your system).

> sio0: <Standard PC COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on acpi0
> sio0: type 16550A, console

The "acpi0" portion of this is why you see the "configured irq 4 not in
bitmap of probed irqs 0"; if acpi0 was isa0, you'd very likely not see
that message.  Because serial works for you, I strongly doubt the
warnings (first paragraph) are of any concern.


> looks like some garbled output between bce0 and it seems to say:
> bec0: link state changed to up
> NFS ROOT: 10.38.0.14:/usr/local/nfsroot/freebsd-70-amd64

Please see http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/common_issues.txt for
that problem.

> my configuration as is:
> /boot.config
> -Dh

Change this to -S9600 -Dh, and remove the lines from /boot/loader.conf.

> /boot/loader.conf
> boot_multicons="YES"
> boot_serial="YES"
> comconsole_speed="9600"
> console="comconsole,vidconsole"

> /etc/ttys
> [mhettwer at blowfish] </usr/local/nfsroot/freebsd-70-amd64>grep ttyd0 etc/ttys                                                                    [16:10:55 on 07-12-13]
> ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt220   on secure
> 
> I believe my configuration is correct, isn't it?

Looks correct.

> Where's my login prompt? :)
> 
> It's there with VGA output...

conscontrol(8) might be able to tell you.  It's very likely dedicated to
the VGA system at this point.  conscontrol(8) appears to simply read and
parse the output of the kern.console sysctl.

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