From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 01:00:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1CF37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geminix.org (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A408243FBD for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:00:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Received: from pd95876fb.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.88.118.251] helo=geminix.org) by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19Q0Wa-000MDY-00; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:00:04 +0200 Message-ID: <3EE6E181.1060502@geminix.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:00:01 +0200 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Aitken References: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDB96@EX-LONDON> <3ED64120.3070607@dreamchaser.org> <3EE6A1C6.5030800@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <3EE6A1C6.5030800@dreamchaser.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting using serial console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:00:17 -0000 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 -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net