From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 30 5:10:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (mail-4.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94A137B503 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 05:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA19695; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 05:05:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: Subject: RE: serial console installs? Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 08:13:11 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <20000929180515.V27736@fw.wintelcom.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alfred }Perlstein }Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:05 PM }To: Danny Howard }Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Re: serial console installs? } } }* 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." } Was it a particular manufacturer? Or do all machines fail on a serial install? -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message