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From: "James O'Gorman" <james@netinertia.co.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: "Rebooting..." on serial console appears garbled
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>Number:         85812
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       "Rebooting..." on serial console appears garbled
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 06 22:30:09 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Fri Oct 13 18:33:58 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Fri Oct 13 18:33:58 GMT 2006
>Originator:     James O'Gorman
>Release:        6.0-BETA4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD starbug.netinertia.co.uk 6.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 #0: Tue Sep  6 22:33:12 BST 2005     root@starbug.netinertia.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STARBUG  amd64
>Description:
      When using a serial console on the amd64 version of 6.0-BETA, when executing a `shutdown -r now`, the text that should say "Rebooting..." appears garbled on the serial console. This does not happen on the i386 version of 6.0-BETA4
>How-To-Repeat:
      Install 6.0-BETA (any), amd64, enable serial console by running `echo -Dh > /boot.config` and reboot. When serial console has been verified as working, run a reboot or shutdown command and observe the serial console.
>Fix:
      Unknown as yet...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: James O'Gorman <james@netinertia.co.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  james@netinertia.co.uk
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/85812: "Rebooting..." on serial console appears garbled
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:49:20 +0100

 Having just realised I still have this PR open, I do wonder whether it's
 more to do with my Dell server (or its BIOS) than FreeBSD itself; when
 booting loader seems to redraw the entire screen for every new
 character, or during the autoboot countdown (which is very slow over
 9600 baud connection!)
 
 As I put very little information in the PR and it's not a huge issue,
 this can probably be closed.
 
 James
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 18:33:42 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Closed at submitter's request. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85812 
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