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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:47:27 -0700
From: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: serial console installs?
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:05:16PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com> [000929 17:58] wrote:
> > Has something changed with 4.1-R and 4.1.1-R?  I've managed serial-console
> > installs on machines up to 4.0-R, but with 4.1 I can only get VGA output
> > from the kern.flp image.  I've tried two different machines.  I'm tempted
> > to try 4.0-R kern.flp and install 4.1 using that, but if kern.flp has
> > dropped serial console support that is a very upsetting prospect ...
> > 
> > Does anyone have a clue they can point me at?
> 
> Yeah, it was just brought up a day or so ago, some lame large manufacturer
> broke the keyboard detection routines so we need to default to video,
> solution is to edit the floppy, just mount it and edit the /boot/loader.conf
> for serial support.

Can you give me a hint here?

I added a console="comconsole" from my 4.0-4.1 box to the non-existant
/boot/loader.conf.

Nada.

RTFM ...

copied over loader.4th and added:
include /boot/loader.4th
start

To /boot/loader.rc.

Now I get these messages:

can't open '/boot/support.4th': no such file or whatever.

Puzzled over that one 'til I copied over a support.4th.

Now everything boots up just fine, except it is VGA all the way!  Whee!
GRRR!!!

-danny


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