From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 6:52: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC37237B405 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id g3BDphm24320; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:51:43 +0300 Message-Id: <200204111351.g3BDphm24320@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 11 Apr 02 16:50:09 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Jason Cribbins" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:50:02 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: setup freebsd with no keyboard In-reply-to: <00c301c1e15e$77688b00$15841bd8@kibserv.org> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade 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 Hi Jason! On 11 Apr 02 at 9:40 you wrote: > : OK, if you grep /var/run/dmesg.boot for 'rl0' on this new box, what > : do you get? > How is this done with no keyboard? Good question :-) I would probably try mounting the HD in another computer as slave. > I was kind of hoping I would be able to find a way to connect to the box > without using IP (which is obviously not working) and avoid the entire > processing of tearing the box apart to fix this thing. But it seems the > only route available at this point. There should also be a possibility to use serial console, but I have never tried that so I don't know any details. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message