Section '26.6.3. Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed' of the version of the handbook on the website gives the following instruction for setting a faster serial port speed (in the second of the three bullet points in this section): "Add the -S 19200 boot option to /boot.config, replacing 19200 with the speed to use." This appears inconsistent with boot(8), which indicates that there should not be a space between '-S' and '19200'. I've found that following the instruction given in the handbook (i.e. setting this with the space, in /boot.config) causes the boot process to stop at the boot2 prompt (requiring manual intervention), whereas not including the space between the option and the speed parameter gives a complete boot. Would it be appropriate to change this line to: "Add the -S19200 boot option to /boot.config, replacing 19200 with the speed to use."
A commit references this bug: Author: jgh Date: Fri Feb 6 22:07:59 UTC 2015 New revision: 46261 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46261 Log: - address typo which causes a failed boot sequence PR: 197244 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1760 Reported by: dal36@gmx.co.uk Approved by: bcr (mentor) Changes: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.xml
Committed fix. Thanks for the report!