From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 20:26:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138BB16A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:26:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC4943D54 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:26:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from finalstatic@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so569038wra for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:26:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=XR2vaFDVKQCVI0KDtYxu0d2w1VUtJeCznTe5JOrlh0eTPfWt4QFq3J9rOez80TfTf9Yfr27hj5lXyPDybUcqpo70r6+3tI2fF9D8pBDFSo3mp8DcW3VCLSFaXFshtLAu6qpyBfFP67TKwx9EOiKsinfmC3sek9515ajrzpPpsLE= Received: by 10.54.77.16 with SMTP id z16mr73746wra; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.100.10 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1258e055050421132651ef80f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:26:09 -0700 From: carl forsythe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Setting console parameters for PXE Booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: carl forsythe List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:26:47 -0000 I am working on setting up what will end up being a fully automated environment for setting up our FreeBSD systems. As part of the setup process when they are racked they get plugged into a serial console (Cyclades) and I have console=3D"comconsole" in the loader.conf that I'm using in the PXE environment. My question is this, is there a way to specify the console terminal type i.e. VT100 etc. so that it doesn't ask what type of console you have attached after the kernel loads? (This is before install begins). There doesn't appear to be a getty of any form running or available at this point in the process so adding the below to an etc/ttys file in the mfsroot image probably wouldn't be of use. ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure I've read through the handbook and the README.serial in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot and haven't really come up an answer to this. When it sits there waiting for the input the install hangs waiting, which throws a small wrench into this process. Any ideas? Carl