From nobody Wed Jul 31 12:20:15 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4WYrlm02Rrz5Rpc9 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:20:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tsoome@me.com) Received: from ms11p00im-qufo17281301.me.com (ms11p00im-qufo17281301.me.com [17.58.38.50]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4WYrll5KBFz4T3T for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:20:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tsoome@me.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=me.com; s=1a1hai; t=1722428429; bh=p/vQRf45ZPO2zmEw07aKlGIPfJ7my+GvHgJZ9Dog2Ns=; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:Subject:From:Date:Message-Id:To; b=G/Si9+efEMtHzY7o36ikicuI2MUAFJy0V5G78dPyHnYACidj+5OwCNV6dRzp+lHpC RkBmPqY0eatxVwFJVE4zPgwLbQY1I608uQXJXDOAiH7ggqyHYcUwmMuqocu1KEMVGe euQqxqkgOlL2nfcApnUfwUDhARl6Ig47ZqnPeETos+lRJDBAjgr2x8/4XPZj8Rr55B qqFOsGY91efwFRg3cUkI9BmT2dmqDp/v1Ls24CXSvDf3Y6TCsa5HNXBTP5HB4gXEzO +BTAeBQKOoJ9Kmqet8bkSpXx7jy9A/JSrIsE6GhiJHzmkn8qEtvSjDb8w1yNT6RLFX HKpt7gGGdhWvQ== Received: from smtpclient.apple (ms11p00im-dlb-asmtpmailmevip.me.com [17.57.154.19]) by ms11p00im-qufo17281301.me.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08A8FCC017A; Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3774.600.62\)) Subject: Re: setting the console to serial by defailt seems to not work From: Toomas Soome In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:20:15 +0300 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <86frrq676t.fsf@ltc.des.dev> To: void X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3774.600.62) X-Proofpoint-GUID: 31vHKYnWLBXwEe87Y1vGDvaX-AoXXDNu X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: 31vHKYnWLBXwEe87Y1vGDvaX-AoXXDNu X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.272,Aquarius:18.0.1039,Hydra:6.0.680,FMLib:17.12.28.16 definitions=2024-07-31_08,2024-07-30_01,2024-05-17_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 mlxlogscore=999 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 malwarescore=0 adultscore=0 mlxscore=0 suspectscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.19.0-2308100000 definitions=main-2407310091 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:714, ipnet:17.58.32.0/20, country:US] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4WYrll5KBFz4T3T > On 31. Jul 2024, at 15:01, void wrote: >=20 > On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 08:55:22PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav = wrote: >> void writes: >>> The arm64 device is headless and i connect to it via serial. >>> I noticed the beastie menu come up with the option Video for >>> console. Cycled it to Serial, booted, all fine. [...] >>=20 >> man boot.config >=20 > Thank you for this. I did 'echo "-h" > /boot.config and then booted > and it showed console messages going to the console. This is a result = I'm happy with. >=20 > What's a bit confusing is=20 > 1. it did this with option 5: Cons set to Video in the beastie menu > 2. setting it to Serial in this menu doesn't 'stick' across reboots. >=20 > --=20 >=20 anything* you set in beastie menu is volatile and is not preserved. =E2=80=94 * except if nvstore is used, but it needs a bit of love. rgds, toomas=