Subject: Re: How to change serial baud rate on already installed bootblocks (netbsd-3-0-RELEASE)
To: Job Hanssen <job.hanssen@xs4all.nl>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/03/2007 10:02:13
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:05:14PM +0200, Job Hanssen wrote:
> testbak# installboot -e -o speed=115200 /dev/rwd0a
> installboot: unknown option -- e
> 
> That indeed seems to confirm the last comment.
> 
> Issueing
> installboot -o console=com0,speed=115200 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
> doesn't raise any complaints, but after rebooting, nothing appears to have 
> changed. I still need to set the baud rate of the terminal-emulation to 
> 38400 to 'unscramble' the console-output.
> 
> Any ideas?

Does the kernel output happen at 38400 bauds too, or is it only the
login prompt ? If the last, you just need to change the settings in
/etc/ttys

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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