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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Bielefeld.Germany.EU.net!news.sni.de!news.mch.sni.de!news.ecrc.de!news.space.net!news.b-1.de.contrib.net!src From: src@B-1.de.Contrib.Net (Heiko Blume) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: serial console problems Date: 7 Jun 1996 17:36:55 GMT Organization: Contrib.Net Berlin Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4p9pbn$31o@news.b-1.de.contrib.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.contrib.com Keywords: serial X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) hullo this should most probably go into the FAQ/Handbook. i've setup a serial console like this: - make new kernel with "options COMCONSOLE" - cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/ - enable "-DFORCE_COMCONSOLE" in the Makefile - make clean; make; make install - disklabel -B sd0 which kind of works if i leave the VGA and keyboard installed. if i remove them the kernel will display a nice panic message on the serial console when/after probing for sc0 :-( also, the first text that appears on the serial console is from the kernel itself. i don't get the boot block output, which appears on the VGA instead. not good, i'd like to get the boot prompt on the serial :-( i will now try a kernel without the console driver (sc0), but that's not what i intended to do, actually. i'm running 2.1-stable. -- src@contrib.net TCP/IP GmbH, Woertherstr. 16, 10405 Berlin Tel: +49.30/443366-0, Fax: +49.30/443366-15