From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 16 14:36:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from binnen.mail.nl.demon.net (binnen.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.72.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C32155BB for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:36:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arjan@nl.demon.net) Received: from inventionz.noc.nl.demon.net ([194.159.72.199]) by binnen.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11GUOt-0004dS-00; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:34:39 +0200 Received: from arjan (helo=localhost) by inventionz.noc.nl.demon.net with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11GUUg-000JcS-00; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:40:38 +0200 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:40:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Arjan van der Oest X-Sender: arjan@inventionz.noc.nl.demon.net To: up@3.am Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console redirection and other kernel options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-no-archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 up@3.am wrote: > I've built a rackmount server that I'd like to be able to get into the > console remotely, via a direct connection from a PM2. I've got the bios > to come come up over the serial connection (it's an Intel L440GX+ with > console redirection support) and I built a new kernel with: > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x20 tty irq 4 Just put a boot.config file in your root containing "-P". This will boot on the serial console when there is no keyboard detected. Change /etc/ttys with these lines (note the 'secure' and 'vt100' part). ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on ssecure > supposed to force the OS console to COM1. However, once I get past the > bios and the initial kernel load, it stops reporting to the serial > console, and it takes no keyboard input from the vt320 I have hooked up > there. If a vga monitor and PC keyboard are hooked up, they work fine and > it otherwise boots normally. Switch that BIOS option back off, this should do the trick. > Any hints on how to get this working, would be greatly appreciated. On a > somewhat related note, I noticed that the original GENERIC kernel was > about 2.3MB, and this new one that I built is 8.3MB, WHAAAA ! -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1645699 May 20 21:04 kernel* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2236663 Feb 15 1999 kernel.GENERIC* > even though I > mostly just commented stuff out in the config file. Is this normal, ie > the original kernel is compressed or something? I've never seen a kernel THAT big :) Hope your console problem will be solved now... ao -- Jes: xntp is your friend. The evil empire of Redmond is not. Evil Empire is a registered trademark of Ronald Reagan's sole functioning brain cell. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message