From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Feb 27 11: 0:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (roble.com [206.40.34.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8E137B53B for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sendmail@roble.com) Received: from roble2.roble.com (roble2.roble.com [206.40.34.52]) by roble.com (Roble1b) with SMTP id LAA27751 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:00:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:00:53 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Serial console vs. fixit shell Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD's serial console support is a great feature with the increasing popularity of 1U and 2U rackmount systems. The only problem is that you have to keep a monitor and keyboard handy for those times when a fixit shell is required. The boot->mfsroot->fixit floppies only get you to the "Press Alt-F4 to access the fixit shell" dialog box, and VT100 and ANSI serial terminals apparently don't understand Alt-F4. What is the reason for this odd key combination and, most importantly, is there a workaround that would allow a serial console to access this shell shell? -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message