From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 06:26:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFC316A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (xorpc.icir.org [192.150.187.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5981643D2F for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo@icir.org) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.9p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3UDQBgd094595; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo@xorpc.icir.org) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.9p1/8.12.3/Submit) id i3UDQAgX094590; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:26:10 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Paul Reece Message-ID: <20040430062610.B94367@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20040429232704.E98485@nero.fastlane.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040429232704.E98485@nero.fastlane.net.au>; from paul@fastlane.net.au on Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:36:33PM +0800 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console and network booting weirdness? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:26:17 -0000 On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:36:33PM +0800, Paul Reece wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've recently set up remote booting both via PXE and also Etherboot & > Grub so I can boot my workstation remotely into FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT and > FreeBSD 4.9. > > PXE - works great, however, I'd like to get a boot menu system going, > which is why I'm toying with Grub. > > The most notable problem is with FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT - If I boot into > FreeBSD using Etherboot or Grub (and as such, bypass the loader), the > console output disappears. i think you can fix this by statically compiling the 'hints' into the kernel -- probably the solution is simpler than this, but this one does work cheers luigi > Once the system has booted, a login prompt pops up as per usual - just > nothing beforehand after Grub or Etherboot loads the kernel. > > Is there a setting somewhere in the kernel config (at compile time) or is > the kernel defaulting to a serial console because some environment variables > or similar arent being passed to it by the loader as per usual? > > Or is this a bug rather than a feature?.. in 4.X kernels, the console > continues to function after Grub or Etherboot loads the kernel. > > Cheers, > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"