Hello folks,
I'm not a very bright person (in fact, I'm so not-bright that I didn't back up my config either), and as such I should've known this would happen: I was setting up FreeBSD 8.2.0-BETA3 and had just finished transmission and flexget in a jail and went to put the console messages in the bottom, noticed Autotune and read up on it on the wiki, then decided it couldn't hurt to enable it. However, what I may have also done is enable Serial Console (I'm not completely sure on this, however) and now my system is stuck here with just the spinning thing not spinning (and stopping after a very short time).
I did some googling and found how to enable serial console on FreeBSD so on advise of Survive_ in irc I put mfsbsd on an extra usb disk and booted it, then mounted /dev/da1s1a on /mnt/key - however, /mnt/key/boot/loader.conf contains no mention of console, so I don't think that's it.
And here is the answer: Boot to mfsbsd or livecd, mount /dev/da1s1a in /mnt, comment out or remove 'console="comconsole"' from /mnt/boot/loader.conf.local and reboot the system, then remove the USB stick.
I hereby request this thread be locked (or deleted, to hide my shame :().
I'm not a very bright person (in fact, I'm so not-bright that I didn't back up my config either), and as such I should've known this would happen: I was setting up FreeBSD 8.2.0-BETA3 and had just finished transmission and flexget in a jail and went to put the console messages in the bottom, noticed Autotune and read up on it on the wiki, then decided it couldn't hurt to enable it. However, what I may have also done is enable Serial Console (I'm not completely sure on this, however) and now my system is stuck here with just the spinning thing not spinning (and stopping after a very short time).
I did some googling and found how to enable serial console on FreeBSD so on advise of Survive_ in irc I put mfsbsd on an extra usb disk and booted it, then mounted /dev/da1s1a on /mnt/key - however, /mnt/key/boot/loader.conf contains no mention of console, so I don't think that's it.
And here is the answer: Boot to mfsbsd or livecd, mount /dev/da1s1a in /mnt, comment out or remove 'console="comconsole"' from /mnt/boot/loader.conf.local and reboot the system, then remove the USB stick.
I hereby request this thread be locked (or deleted, to hide my shame :().
