freebsd stable - Jul 2019 - efi and serial console

I installed a RELENG12 snapshot from July 11th and having a hard time
getting serial console to work. In the past, I would have something
simple like


ttyu0?? "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200? vt100?? on secure

in /etc/ttys

and in /boot/loader.conf

console="comconsole,vidconsole"
comconsole_speed="115200"?????? # Set the current serial console speed

With some googling, I did find I now have to use? in /boot/loader.conf

boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
console="comconsole,efi"
comconsole_speed="115200"??

However, I can never get getty to automatically start up. I have


# grep u0 /etc/ttys
ttyu0?? "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200? vt100?? on secure
#

but at boot up time, I can see on my serial connection the boot loader
etc and everything prints out to

Configuring vt: blanktime.
Performing sanity check on sshd configuration.
Starting sshd.
Starting sendmail_submit.
igb0: link state changed to UP
Starting sendmail_msp_queue.
Starting cron.
Starting backgrou


and then nothing.? No login prompt and I dont see getty running on the
serial port. If I ssh in and then do a

/usr/libexec/getty std.115200 ttyu0


up pops the login prompt and I can login over serial. However, I have to
login as a non root user first.? Any idea what I am missing ?

??? ---Mike

On 2019-07-19 13:58, mike tancsa wrote:
> I installed a RELENG12 snapshot from July 11th and having a hard time
> getting serial console to work. In the past, I would have something
> simple like
> 
> 
> ttyu0?? "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200? vt100?? on secure
> 
> in /etc/ttys
> 
> and in /boot/loader.conf
> 
> console="comconsole,vidconsole"
> comconsole_speed="115200"?????? # Set the current serial console
speed
> 
> With some googling, I did find I now have to use? in /boot/loader.conf
> 
> boot_multicons="YES"
> boot_serial="YES"
> console="comconsole,efi"
> comconsole_speed="115200"??
> 
> However, I can never get getty to automatically start up. I have
> 
> 
> # grep u0 /etc/ttys
> ttyu0?? "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200? vt100?? on secure
> #
> 
> but at boot up time, I can see on my serial connection the boot loader
> etc and everything prints out to
> 
> Configuring vt: blanktime.
> Performing sanity check on sshd configuration.
> Starting sshd.
> Starting sendmail_submit.
> igb0: link state changed to UP
> Starting sendmail_msp_queue.
> Starting cron.
> Starting backgrou
> 
> 
> and then nothing.? No login prompt and I dont see getty running on the
> serial port. If I ssh in and then do a
> 
> /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 ttyu0
> 
> 
> up pops the login prompt and I can login over serial. However, I have to
> login as a non root user first.? Any idea what I am missing ?
> 
> ??? ---Mike
> 
> 
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I assume that you changed the default here as my machine's /etc/ttys
looks different?

sbruno at alice:~ % grep ttyu0 /etc/ttys
ttyu0	"/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"	vt100	onifconsole secure


sean

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 12:59 PM mike tancsa, <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> I installed a RELENG12 snapshot from July 11th and having a hard time
> getting serial console to work. In the past, I would have something
> simple like
>
>
> ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200  vt100   on secure
>
Use 3wire.115200 instead and see if that works. We had to switch to that
with 11.0+ in order to get a working serial console on our Supermicro
motherboards (AMD Opteron and Epyc).

Cheers,
Freddie

Typos courtesy of my phone's keyboard.