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From: blume_h@slbwlz.bln.sel.alcatel.de (H. Blume von Contributed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: serial console problems
Date: 17 Jun 1996 12:57:12 +0200
Organization: Alcatel SEL
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>>>>> "Joerg" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
In article <4pssob$j31@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
Joerg> src@B-1.de.Contrib.Net (Heiko Blume) wrote:
>> this should most probably go into the FAQ/Handbook. i've setup a serial
>> console like this:
>>
>> - make new kernel with "options COMCONSOLE"
Joerg> Overkill. The new bootblock should get you going.
>> - cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/
>> - enable "-DFORCE_COMCONSOLE" in the Makefile
>> - make clean; make; make install
>>
>> - disklabel -B sd0
>> also, the first text that appears on the serial console
>> is from the kernel itself. i don't get the boot block
Joerg> So you're still suffering from an old bootblock. A bootblock with
Joerg> ``serial console forced'' prints its messages on the serial console.
Joerg> You can toggle it back to the graphics console by -h.
yep! yesterweek i redid the whole procedure and this time i took the
disklabel diags more seriously. it "mentioned" that 'rpm' was zero
and that the superblock size was zero. since it didn't exactly scream
i ignored this the first time...now i have edited the label to
pretty numbers in these fields (plus interleave=1) and
wrote them boot blocks again. did it actually write anything the first
time?
i then removed the sc0 driver and the vga card and the keyboard....
works just great now.
now i'm trying to get the sun that plays console terminal
to ignore the serial going up/down when the FreeBSD boots.
damn cu+tip/kermit always punt back to the shell/prompt :-(
i tried ecu, but boy does it SUCK, why the **** does it
use the END key (which doesn't work, of course) for
the essential things and no alternative AFAICS, and
i tried it a long time...
hb
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