Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:00:01 +0200 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: Gary Aitken <garya@dreamchaser.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting using serial console Message-ID: <3EE6E181.1060502@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <3EE6A1C6.5030800@dreamchaser.org> References: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDB96@EX-LONDON> <3ED64120.3070607@dreamchaser.org> <3EE6A1C6.5030800@dreamchaser.org>
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Gary Aitken wrote:
> Well, nothing like feeling like a blind person...
>
> I'm trying to boot / install 4.5 on a headless system.
>
> I've made the serial console boot floppies, but get no response when I
> try to use them.
> [...]
>
> boot.config looks like:
> /boot/loader -h
I could be wrong, but isn't 'boot.config' supposed to contain only
arguments you would otherwise enter at the boot prompt? So it should be
just a single '-h'. I have a '-P' in that file, for instance, and it
works as expected.
> When the machine tries to boot, how does it determine the baud rate to
> use on the com1 port, assuming it is properly listening there? I'm
> guessing the baud rates of the machine and the terminal are mismatched.
'sio0' in the kernel config needs a 'flags 0x10' directive in order to
make COM1 a (potential) console port. Default speed is 9600 bit/s.
Uwe
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