Re: 5.3-BETA3 serial console

From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd_at_jdc.parodius.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:51:58 -0700
This could possibly be an issue with your BIOS; "COM1" disabled in the
BIOS could caus what you're seeing (especially the initial line, "sio0:
configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0").

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:21:05PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> Hi Kim,
> 
> Kim Culhan wrote:
> >On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
> >>
> >>from "off" to "on" and issue a "kill -HUP 1" to initalise the
> >>serial console.
> >
> >
> >1) Change 'dialup' to a terminal type such as 'vt220'
> >
> >2) Create a file (if it doesn't exist already)
> >
> >   /boot/loader.conf.local
> >
> >   with the line:
> >
> >   console=comconsole
> >
> >Expect the port to be set to 96008N1
> >
> I did both steps. However... deadlock after either doing the SIGHUP on 
> PID 1 or doing a reboot. deadlock appears than right after the boot is 
> finished.
> Well... it may have something todo with what I found now in dmesg:
> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio0: port may not be enabled
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 8250 or not responding
> 
> this doesn't look good, eh ?
> although:
> ([mhettwer_at_ares] <~>)$ ls /dev/ttyd*
> /dev/ttyd0
> ([mhettwer_at_ares] <~>)$ ls /dev/cua*
> /dev/cuaa0      /dev/cuaia0     /dev/cuala0
> 
> but:
> ([mhettwer_at_ares] <~>)$ ls /dev/sio*
> ls: /dev/sio*: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> hmm... something's strange...
> 
> best regards,
> Marian
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Received on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 13:51:59 UTC

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