The following reply was made to PR install/34280; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>
To: George Georgalis <george@metrumrg.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>,
	David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>,
	Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>, install-manager@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/34280: cannot boot install media via serial
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:08:49 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:20:40PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
 > On prior attempts I configured bios console on COM2 with a speed
 > of 115200, noting that a minicom speed mismatch yields zero serial
 > data, here's a table of prior attempts:
 > 
 > bios redirection to COM1(0x3f8), zero bios serial
 > bios redirection to COM2(0x2f8), consdev com0, zero serial
 > bios redirection to COM2(0x2f8), consdev com1, zero serial
 > bios redirection to COM2(0x2f8), consdev com2, serial till checksum
 > 
 > the partial success with "consdev com2" indicates bios serial
 > port numbering at the boot prompt.
 
 The serial port numbering at the boot prompt is like in the kernel:
 starting with 0. Isn't there an option in the BIOS to stop redirection
 when it starts the boot loader? I would also consistently use speed of
 9600.