disabling all serial input / output at boot time

[Rui Paulo]

On 15 Apr 2010, at 17:18, Julian Elischer wrote:

> On 4/15/10 3:03 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> At 12:04 AM 4/15/2010, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
>>> Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> > I have an embedded device (Alix box) that is running RELENG_8 off
>>> > a CF that is designed to monitor / control a serial sensor device.
>>> > The sensor is quite chatty and is always outputing data at 115200.
>>> > The problem is that this will interrupt the boot process.
>>> 
>>> > I even tried to "fake" it out, but trying to make com2, the console
>>> > in /boot/device.hints ...
>>> >
>>> > Is there any way to completely disable serial interaction and
>>> > to truly make the bootup process quiet and non interactive ?
>>> 
>>> More of a workaround than a fix, but does it work any better
>>> if you connect the device to com2 instead of com1?
>> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately there is only one serial port on the board we are using.
> 
> yes but can the bios map it to be com2?

If not, maybe there's some way to do this by changing the hints file.

Regards,
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Rui Paulo