[Soekris] FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801?

[Yuri Lukin]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:39:10 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote
> At 5:56 PM +1100 3/1/08, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> >I had no problem installing a pre-release version of 7.0 a few months ago.
> 
> That's good to hear
> 
> >Why is the serial output unreadable?
> 
> Every character typed by the FreeBSD boot process is erased after 
> typing, at least using the console programs I have tried. It has 
> always been this way. (I don't build my own kernels.)
> 
> >The Soekris BIOS talks at 9600 baud and FreeBSD defaults to 19200 so 
> >you might need to change baud rates in mid boot.
> 
> No, it's not that. I see each character come up and disappear. As I 
> said, I see the countdown happening.
> 
> >I also needed to disable DMA as a few recent messages have mentioned.
> 
> Yep, did that.
> 
> >But it doesn't sound like you're even getting that far. What are you 
> >installing from and to?
> 
> 7.0 RELEASE, from CD onto a CF card on a different machine.
> 
> This might be a lot clearer if there was a simple way to get the 
> FreeBSD boot stuff to leave its text on the serial console in a way 
> that I could see. Am I missing some bit of passed-down wisdom here?


I believe you need to recompile the boot loader. There's a nice guide here:
http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=94

 yuri