[Soekris] FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801?

[Jan Hoevers]

Graham Menhennitt wrote on 1-3-2008 7:56:
> Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> Greetings again. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801 with 
>> no luck. After the (unreadable over serial) boot prompt, during the 
>> 10-second countdown, I hit return. The cursor goes almost to the left 
>> end of the screen and stops. It doesn't respond to typing. 
>> Eventually, the system reboots.
> I had no problem installing a pre-release version of 7.0 a few months ago. Why is the serial output unreadable? The Soekris BIOS talks at 9600 baud and FreeBSD defaults to 19200 so you might need to change baud rates in mid boot. I also needed to disable DMA as a few recent messages have mentioned. But it doesn't sound like you're even getting that far. What are you installing from and to?

It's the other way round actually.  Soekris bios defaults to 19200 baud
and FreeBSD to 9600.
An easy solution is to set the bios to 9600, no need for acrobatics like
changing baud rate in mid boot.

regards,
Jan Hoevers