From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 19:50:30 2005 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 DBEDC16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:50:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tibor.swiftdsl.com.au (tibor.swiftdsl.com.au [202.154.92.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9322A43D1F for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:50:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: (qmail 9370 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2005 19:57:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [10.0.0.55]) ([218.214.143.85]) (envelope-sender ) by tibor.swiftdsl.com.au (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Apr 2005 19:57:58 -0000 Message-ID: <42598382.5020509@roq.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 05:50:26 +1000 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?U8WCYXdlayDFu2Fr?= References: <787bbe1c0504070307670f5e5d@mail.gmail.com> <4255182E.1020002@centtech.com> <4142.212.12.51.89.1112874483.squirrel@212.12.51.89> <42551E94.30800@centtech.com> <787bbe1c05040705254c89fea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <787bbe1c05040705254c89fea@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Eric Anderson cc: Marian Hettwer Subject: Re: Serial console install 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: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:50:31 -0000 Also I would like to make aware to the discussion IPMI which I believe in Version 2 has console support, This stuff seems to be the future of serial console, I have found it frustrating that Dell sell most of their servers with only 1 serial port, I believe there excuse is IPMI. http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/ipmi/ http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/ http://www.freebsdsystems.com/ipmi-tech.php Cheers, Michael Sławek Żak wrote: >On Apr 7, 2005 1:50 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >>You must have missed the second link - it answers your questions >> >> >completely. You can >also build your own images with whatever setup >you'd like, and/or have that image used via >PXE install. > >So the options I have are: > >1. Boot from CDROM with keyboard plugged in, wait for the beep and >press 6 blindfolded then enter boot -h. >2. Boot from floppy and flip the diskettes until the output is >directed to the serial console. >3. Build my own PXE image. > >Doh. Lots of work. I was asking for a small and very helpful change in >the boot loader. Floppies are so 1980's. Getting my butt to the server >room and plugging the keyboard in is a little better, but still far >from the convenience of putting the CD in and forgetting the problem. > >/S >_______________________________________________ >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" > >