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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:35:05 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com>
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Subject: Re: serial console installs?
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* Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com> [000929 18:47] wrote:
> 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!!!

Try adding a /boot.config with
-h

in it.

You may also have success by adding a line:

set console="comconsole"

to the /boot/loader.rc

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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