Subject: Re: port-amd64/34259: no ps2 hardware means show stopper when usb fails
To: George Georgalis <george@metrumrg.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/23/2006 22:03:59 
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:29:37PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> >you should be able to change this from the boot promt:
> >consdev com2
> >and then you should see the boot loader prompt on com2 (and nothing on
> >VGA any more).
> 
> That's not what happens, from serial console, I get:
> 
> > consdev com2                                                                  
>                                                                                 
>                                                                                 
> >> NetBSD/amd64 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.2                                         
> >> (builds@b1.netbsd.org, Sun Aug 20 22:12:26 UTC 2006)                         
> >> Memory: 630/2096064 k                                                        
> > boot                                                                          
> booting fd0a:netbsd                                                             
> 3437976+5223824+217008=0x9788c0                                                 
> 
> 
> and serial stops, boot continues on vga.

Then this doesn't work the same way as on i386 :(
Maybe this could need another PR ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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