From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 18: 5:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307C837B502 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:05:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8U15GZ24049; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:05:16 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Danny Howard Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console installs? Message-ID: <20000929180515.V27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000929175801.Q34935@never.tellme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000929175801.Q34935@never.tellme.com>; from dannyman@tellme.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:58:01PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Danny Howard [000929 17:58] wrote: > Has something changed with 4.1-R and 4.1.1-R? I've managed serial-console > installs on machines up to 4.0-R, but with 4.1 I can only get VGA output from > the kern.flp image. I've tried two different machines. I'm tempted to try > 4.0-R kern.flp and install 4.1 using that, but if kern.flp has dropped serial > console support that is a very upsetting prospect ... > > Does anyone have a clue they can point me at? Yeah, it was just brought up a day or so ago, some lame large manufacturer broke the keyboard detection routines so we need to default to video, solution is to edit the floppy, just mount it and edit the /boot/loader.conf for serial support. sorry, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message