Subject: port-i386/26405: serial bootblocks write their first banner line to the vga
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@aprisoft.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/22/2004 19:16:10
>Number:         26405
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       serial bootblocks write their first banner line to the vga
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 22 17:45:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0G
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD beasty.aprisoft.de 2.0G NetBSD 2.0G (REVEL) #17: Tue Jul 20 10:21:41 CEST 2004 martin@beasty.aprisoft.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/REVEL i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

When booting from a serial bootblock, the "NetBSD .... ffsv1 boot
block" banner line is written via the bios and goes to the vga card,
while the following  lines, starting with

NetBSD/i386 BIOS Boot...

go to the serial line.

>How-To-Repeat:

Install serial bootblocks, reboot, watch vga + serial console.

>Fix:
n/a
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: