Hello, > The sense of the -P option was changed, and it makes it so you have to > do extra work to get the console driver to do the right thing from > inside FreeBSD proper, on a machine that could have its keyboard removed > (or not). It's because the -h is implied, and it's a toggle. Oh, I see now. I didn't even noticed that option.
> Anyway, it was a particular problem with the SuperMicro motherboards > with the AMI BIOS that's been the subject of the rest of this discussion > (i.e. the ones that kick out the escape sequence at the end, for no good > reason, except to screw up non-monochrome VTxxx emulators, and make it > hard to use a UNIX box as the serial console). If I understood correctly, the original post was indeed a misunderstanding about the console redirection of the BIOS, which is only effective until the kernel boots. From that point one must enable the serial console in kernel and I think this is what was omitted. Don't know. I remember that I had no special problems with my L440GX when last tried this, only the above one (enable serial console, which is trivial). Anyways, thanks for the clarification! ----------[ Free Software ISOs - http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download ]---------- Attila Nagy e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415 (194) cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
