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 -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net
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