From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 1 07:52:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA29368 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 07:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29363 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 07:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA02265; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:51:47 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA00841; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:51:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id QAA17615; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:33:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199609011433.QAA17615@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD without console To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:33:24 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Dan Busarow at "Aug 31, 96 02:42:35 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Dan Busarow wrote: > > > Is there a way that I can run without > > > any console port i.e. no VGA or COM1 port and redirect > > > No. The console must exist (if it exists at all) before the root file > > system is mounted. > > Sure you can. Boot with -c and disable sc0. Read what i wrote: ``if it exists at all''. It cannot exist in terms of a plain file, however. This was the question (as i understand it). Of course, you can run without *any* console, but then you gotta rely exclusively on syslog to catch all the interesting messages. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)