Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:47:27 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial console installs? Message-ID: <20000929184727.T34935@never.tellme.com> In-Reply-To: <20000929180515.V27736@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:05:16PM -0700 References: <20000929175801.Q34935@never.tellme.com> <20000929180515.V27736@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:05:16PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com> [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. Can you give me a hint here? I added a console="comconsole" from my 4.0-4.1 box to the non-existant /boot/loader.conf. Nada. RTFM ... copied over loader.4th and added: include /boot/loader.4th start To /boot/loader.rc. Now I get these messages: can't open '/boot/support.4th': no such file or whatever. Puzzled over that one 'til I copied over a support.4th. Now everything boots up just fine, except it is VGA all the way! Whee! GRRR!!! -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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