console redirection to serial in Freebsd 5.1

[Sebastian Yepes F. [ESN]]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:00:33 -0500
Loh John Wu <ljwu at sandvine.com> wrote:

> So I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.1 from a CD (ISO).
> 
> Now I'm trying to turn on console redirection in my image, but I can't seem
> to get it to work properly.
> 
> I read the article on turning on console redirection at
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu
> p.html
> 
> but I think that doc was geared towards a 4.X release as it says that
> specific sio options
> need to be set in the kernel config file.
> 
> However, reading the man page on the sio driver in 5.1-release man pages at
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sio&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Fre
> eBSD+5.1-RELEASE&format=html
> 
> it seems that we just need to set those configs that used to be in the
> kernel conf file in 4.7 in the
> /boot/devices.hints file.
> 
> So I've set these options in the hints file to turn on the serial
> redirection with the flag 0x90
> 
> hint.sio.0.at="isa"
> hint.sio.0.port="0x3F8"
> hint.sio.0.flags="0x90"
> hint.sio.0.irq="4"
> hint.sio.1.at="isa"
> hint.sio.1.port="0x2F8"
> hint.sio.1.irq="3"
> hint.sio.2.at="isa"
> hint.sio.2.disabled="1"
> hint.sio.2.port="0x3E8"
> hint.sio.2.irq="5"
> hint.sio.3.at="isa"
> hint.sio.3.disabled="1"
> hint.sio.3.port="0x2E8"
> hint.sio.3.irq="9"
> 
> I've also set in the /boot.config file the -P flag to
> set the console to the serial console in the presence of a keyboard.
> 
> and I've changed /etc/ttys to allow for the ttyd0 as well.
> 
> I am using the generic FreeBSD 5.1 kernel with the generic 5.1 kernel config
> options,
> but from what I read, I think I can still enable serial console redirection
> with the generic kernel.
> Any ideas as to what I might be missing to have the redirection to teh
> serial console.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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echo "-h" >/boot.conf

and you well have serial...


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