Re: pegasos II boot over serial console?

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

Håkan Johansson wrote:

> I'm trying to boot NetBSD 5.0 on a Pegasos II over a serial console.  The 
> boot process stops (or at least nothing more is shown) after 'pegasospci0 
> at mainbus0'.  The initial announcement of ofppc booting on a Pegasos II 
> had 'Switching to COM console at speed 9600' right after this.  I'm 
> wondering how to configure a kernel to successfully use the serial 
> console?

Nothing special to do. Just unplug the keyboard and boot NetBSD. When ofppc
attaches com, it will determine the serial frequency from OFW and calculates
the correct speed in bps.

Does it work for you with a keyboard and monitor?


> ok boot netbsd-ofppc

Hmm... please boot "ofwboot" instead, which will load the kernel. I remember
that I had strange problems when booting a kernel directly.

Among other things ofwboot makes sure that the kernel is loaded at the
correct address.

Just tried booting with ofwboot and serial console, and it works fine for me
(using 5.99.7).


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