FreeBSD blocks on BOCHS serial port

[Eugene Grosbein]

On 15.08.2018 18:06, Alexander Lochmann wrote:
> I've to correct myself. It works if I activate the boot console
> (console="vidconsole,comconsole").
> If I change the mentioned line to console="vidconsole", neither writing
> to /dev/ttyu0 nor reading from /dev/cuau1 works.
> It seems that the FreeBSD loader initialize the serial ports in a
> different way than the OS does.

Why don't you initialize ports as you need?
Do not rely on defaults, they happen to change between OS versions.