Re: not working /dev/console

Hi Kurt,

Does dmesg|grep uart
Show the console?

I will try to upgrade my PCengines and let you know ASAP.

Danny
PS: I did upgrade it’s bios some time ago


> On 8 Dec 2024, at 15:15, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have a case of a PC Engines APU1 model with the most recent 
> BIOS that no longer works after the upgrade to 14.2 with the
> serial console after boot.
> 
> Is that related ?
> 
> The devinfo -r output:
> - One box where I still have 14.1:
>  https://people.freebsd.org/~pi/logs/devinfo-apu1-14.1
> - The one apu1 box where I did the upgrade and uart vanished:
>  https://people.freebsd.org/~pi/logs/devinfo-apu1-14.2
> 
> kenv shows on the 14.1 box:
> boot_multicons="YES"
> comconsole_pcidev=""
> comconsole_port="1016"
> comconsole_speed="115200"
> console="comconsole"
> hw.uart.console="io:1016,br:115200"
> 
> kenv shows on the 14.2 box:
> comconsole_pcidev=""
> comconsole_port="1016"
> comconsole_speed="115200"
> console="comconsole"
> hw.uart.console="io:1016,br:115200"
> 
> A reboot with the 14.1 kernel did not bring back the serial console 8-(
> 
> The boot menue is displayed and can be used, but the boot messages
> are cut off before a login appears:
> 
> [...]
> Dual Console: Serial Primary, Video Secondary
> intsmb0: <AMD SB600/7xx/8xx/9xx SMBus Controller> at device 20.0 on pci0
> smbus0: <System Management Bus> on intsmb0
> re0: link state changed to UP
> re1: link state changed to UP
> re2: link state changed to UP
> lo0: link state changed to UP
> re0: link state changed to DOWN
> re2: link state changed to DOWN
> re2: link state changed to UP
> re0: link state changed to UP
> 
> -- 
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>