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>Number:         5637
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       Not quite possible to install FreeBSD from a serial console
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb  3 13:50:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     James Nuckolls
>Organization:
None
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:

A 2.2-STABLE daily snap boot disk

>Description:

It's not quite possible to install FreeBSD using a serial console.
Why?  Because in order to switch to the new console you have to
either type '-h' or '-P' or even '-D' at the boot prompt.  In order
to do this, you of course must have a real keyboard (making '-P'
useless).

Honestly, after I put a keyboard on the machine and did the -h thing,
install went perfectly from the console.

>How-To-Repeat:

Get a boot disk, unplug your keyboard, put a serial console on
com1.

>Fix:

On the boot disk add 'kernel -P' (or -D if you want) to /boot.conf.
This shouldn't be on the MFS.
	

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: