Re: serial console puzzle

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

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 03:44:46PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> In /boot.cfg:
> 
> menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;consdev com0,57600;boot
> 
> # installboot -ve /dev/rsd0a
> File system:         /dev/rsd0a
> Boot options:        timeout 5, flags 0, speed 57600, ioaddr 0, console com0
> 
> Yet in dmesg:
> 
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, 1-byte FIFO
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, 1-byte FIFO
> com1: console
> 
> (so I don't actually see anything)
> 
> (Wednesday's -current/amd64)
> 
> 
> Thoughts?

one possibility is that the bios has com0 and com1 swapped.
In some case I had to explicitely set ioaddr with installboot to have
the serial console working.

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