Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:40:31 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting wither serial port console Message-ID: <200104242040.f3OKeVc31414@ptavv.es.net>
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I feel like I must be missing something, but I have read lots of man pages and not found how to do this. I have a server with only a serial connection to the serial port. I want to do a 'boot -P' by default. (I may want to plug in a keyboard and display on occasion.) I don't want to use /boot.config for this as it bypasses loader(8) and breaks thinks like top. I tried adding 'kernel_option="-P"' to /boot/loader.conf, but that seems to do nothing. Is there a way to get the serial port to act as console through loader(8) so that I can get a clean boot but still have the option of autoboot to do a 'boot -s'? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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