Re: more on serial console problems

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Doug White wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > rebuilt my amd64 and (apart from some loader buildword/install problems)
> > I got the following serial console results using loader:
> >
> > * default boot to screen is fine
> > * boot -s to screen is fine
> > * boot -h gives kernel message but nothing after "mounting root from"
> >   when rc.d startup scripts are running
> > * boot -h -s give kernel boot messages but "../bin/sh " for single
> >   user mode is printed neither to console nor to screen
> > * echo "-h" > /boot.config : loader and kernel boot messages go to
> >   console but again no rc.d startup script messages
>
> the last one and the 3rd one are functionally the same, although it
> obviously toggles the flog on loader.
>
> I can try this on Monday, but it sounds like /dev/console isn't getting

thanks. there have been some more tty changes meanwhile but I hadn't
time to try them.


> pointed right.  Make sure you have flag 0x10 set on the desired serial
> device.

bz_at_noc:/boot> grep sio.0.flags device.hints
hint.sio.0.flags="0x10"

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