Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 12/10/2009 2:32 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > >> Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). > >> Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, > >> redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both > >> VGA > >>

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/10/2009 2:28 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >>> hi, >>> FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some >>> gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input >>> is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/10/2009 2:32 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). >> Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, >> redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA >> and serial port,

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 09.12.2009 um 17:13 schrieb Daniel Braniss: [B]ooting off the CF (using boot0sio), the input 'screwy' at the selection of partition it is ignored, at the OK: prompt from the boot (i had no kernel in the slice), the input is usually doubled: sshooww instead of show which is probably si

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:13:57 Daniel Braniss wrote: > > hi, > > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > > is ok, but booting o

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > hi, > > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > > is ok, but booting off the CF (using

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-09 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi, > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio)

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-09 Thread Milan Obuch
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:13:57 Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi, > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > is ok, but booting off the CF

PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio), the input 'screwy' at the selection of partition it