> > On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:47 AM, Danny Braniss wrote: > > >> If the VGA driver is present, the system will assume you want to use a > >> VGA console, unless you force one of the serial ports to become the > >> system console by setting the appropriate hint in device.hints or > >> loader.conf as documented in the sio(4) man page. For instance: > >> > >> hint.sio.0.flags="0x30" > >> > >> forces sio0 to become the system console regardless of the presence of > >> a display adapter. > >> > >> You may also have to tell the boot code and loader to use the serial > >> console; see their respective manual pages. > >> > > > > im using hint.sio.0.flags="0x20", and still, only after i removed the > > vga > > from the config file did i get the console output on the serial line. > > > > i'm using boot0sio, so the boot is also talking via the serial, but > > the BTX > > is still using the vga, compiling it to use the serial gave errors. > > BTX_SERIAL will not work with boot2 (hard drive boot blocks) due to > space > constraints. It does work for /boot/loader and pxeboot however. Note > that > it only outputs meaningful text if it crashes anyway, so I wouldn't > worry > about it.
well, the host was not booting ... with BTX_SERIAL, btx does not compile, and for 'completness' it would be nice to have all console output, anyways my problem was not btx related. danny _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
