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Subject: Re: docs/95408: install over serial console does not work as
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, John Baldwin wrote:

JB>On Thursday 06 April 2006 08:29, Harti Brandt wrote:
JB>> 
JB>> >Number:         95408
JB>> >Category:       docs
JB>> >Synopsis:       install over serial console does not work as documented
JB>> >Confidential:   no
JB>> >Severity:       serious
JB>> >Priority:       low
JB>> >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
JB>> >State:          open
JB>> >Quarter:        
JB>> >Keywords:       
JB>> >Date-Required:
JB>> >Class:          doc-bug
JB>> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
JB>> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 06 12:30:20 GMT 2006
JB>> >Closed-Date:
JB>> >Last-Modified:
JB>> >Originator:     Harti Brandt
JB>> >Release:        6.1-beta4
JB>> >Organization:
JB>> DLR
JB>> >Environment:
JB>> >Description:
JB>> The installation document describes a procedure to install on i386 over a 
JB>> serial console. It recommends to either unplug the keyboard or to interrupt the boot and boot with boot -h.
JB>> 
JB>> Boot -h turns out not to work. While all the kernel messages from the probing
JB>> appear on both the normal console and the serial one, after mounting the root
JB>> file system the system switches entirely to the normal console.
JB>> 
JB>> Instead the following procedure will do it (but require at least a keyboard on the machine in question):
JB>> 
JB>> - interrupt the boot in the boot menu by pressing 6
JB>> - enter the following lines:
JB>> 
JB>> set boot_multicons="YES"
JB>> set boot_serial="YES"
JB>> set console="comconsole"
JB>> boot
JB>
JB>Are you doing 'boot -h' at the loader prompt?  I think all you need to do is
JB>break into the loader and do:
JB>
JB>set console="comconsole vidconsole"

As I said I did what the documentation says: press 6 when the menu appears 
and then say boot -h. This should be the load prompt, I think?

If one is supposed to use the 'set console' instead of boot -h we should 
just fix the documentation.

harti

JB>instead.