[Soekris] FreeBSD Console Problems

[Crist J. Clark]

I've got a new net5501. For now, I'm just trying to do a diskless
boot with FreeBSD. The first few stages of the netboot appear to
be working fine. It gets a DCHP lease. It fetches the pxeboot
via TFTP, but having some problems after this.

It looks like the boot is continuing, but it is not completing,
and I'm not sure what's going on because the console is not
readable. All of the output is on the same line and it looks
like it keeps getting overwritten with blanks. I see a brief
flash of a few charcaters, then gone. What I mostly see is the
spinner, "/-\|/", spinning away on the line.

This sounds like the cons25 problem I see mentioned in many
sources about running FreeBSD on Soekris, but I did comment out,

  # Include simple terminal emulation (cons25-compatible)
  #CFLAGS+= -DTERM_EMU

In /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/Makefile. And then did a,

  # cd /usr/src/sys/boot
  # make obj && make depend && make && make install

(In a jail with with the root that the net5501 is trying to
mount as root.) But I still seem to have the problem. Am I
missing some other step? Is this not the terminal emulation
problem?

And once I get this fixed, I think at some point later in the
boot the console appears to flip to a different speed. I get
garbage characters. Perhaps when the kernel takes over from
the loader, it's falling back to 9600?
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark at alum.mit.edu