From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 20:35:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D02637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GGP00F01BCBHE@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.66.11.101]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GGP00G4GBCA7Y@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:35:35 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: Boot over serial port. How? In-reply-to: <3B56510F.54724205@users.sourceforge.net> To: "'R. Lahaye'" , FreeBSD Message-id: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239259FFD@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: R. Lahaye [mailto:lahaye@users.sourceforge.net] > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:17 PM > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Boot over serial port. How? > > > > Hi, > > I have a headless PC: no videocard, no monitor attached. > I decided to install FreeBSD, since it appears to be the only free > OS that can INSTALL over the serial port. That part went all well. > > When I reboot this system, it reports the boot messages to the > serial-connected console. However, after the boot messages, there's > no login prompt on the serial-console. > > Why can I not login over the serial port after the boot? > Can someone give me a clue what sort of things I may overlook? See the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu p.html. Look at 16.6.4.4 in particular. HTH, Drew > > Thanks, > Rob. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message