Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:57:22 -0700 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <20000710135722.A24439@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <396A3126.78203836@digitalconvergence.com>; from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 03:25:10PM -0500 References: <396A3126.78203836@digitalconvergence.com>
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set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc paul Alan Edmonds (aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) wrote: > > I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about > setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports > 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports > console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at > hard coding a serial console into BTX. Normally, you > put the -h option into /boot.conf, but PXE doesn't > read that. I tried putting console=comconsole into > /boot/loader.rc, but it didn't work quite right. > I modified src/sys/boot/i386/common/conf.c and > removed the vidconsole option and that worked. > I could set the flags in the kernel to 0x20 to > force serial and that worked. > > I'd like a more 'supported' option. That allowed > me access to BTX before booting the kernel. Does > anyone have a suggestion? Is there a /etc/make.conf > option I could set? > > Thanks. > -- > Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology > DigitalConvergence.:Com > aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com > Phone: +1-214-292-6040 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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