Re: How to enable PC-Console on boot

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:00:18PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> [...]
> Thank you very much for your suggestions. I managed to see the boot message
> from Xen first with this:
> 
> ```
> menu=Boot Xen:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz root=NAME=root;multiboot /xen.gz
> dom0_mem=512M console=vga dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin
> ```
> 
> It is displayed very briefly, but is similar in appearance to what I would
> have expected. Nevertheless, the screen clears afterwards and there is no
> further output. So the behavior now matches what I read at [1].
> 
> I'm just not quite clear at which point I can force the "consdev pc". Does
> this have to be in boot.cfg?

I'm not sure what consdev would do with a Xen multiboot.
But something like this may work:

menu=Boot Xen:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz root=NAME=root console=pc;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M console=vga dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin

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