Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:10 PM 8/26/2009, Thomas Backman wrote:
>>danny
>I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and
>didn't before), but still no luck.


Try adding it to  /boot/device.hints

eg

hint.uart.0.at="isa"
hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
hint.uart.0.irq="4"
hint.uart.1.at="isa"
hint.uart.1.port="0x2F8"

Or, if you want to use loader.conf, try

hw.uart.console="io:0x3f8"

         ---Mike



>Regards/thanks,
>Thomas
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