Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:06:41 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, =?utf-8?q?S=C5=82awek_=C5=BBak?= <slawek.zak@gmail.com> Cc: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: Serial console install Message-ID: <200504081706.45463.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <787bbe1c05040705254c89fea@mail.gmail.com> References: <787bbe1c0504070307670f5e5d@mail.gmail.com> <42551E94.30800@centtech.com> <787bbe1c05040705254c89fea@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 07 April 2005 08:25 am, S=C5=82awek =C5=BBak wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 1:50 PM, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> 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. You can take a current CD-ROM image, copy its contents to /foo. =20 Edit /foo/boot/loader.conf to add 'set console=3Dcomconsole', run mkisofs=20 on /foo to build a new CD image, burn that image onto a disc and then boot= =20 that. If you want to go the PXE route that is very easy to setup and you=20 just edit the boot/loader.conf in your NFS root to add the comconsole line. =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org
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