From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 07:44:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B32616A40E for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 07:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from mail.asahi-net.or.jp (mail2.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C8143D49 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 07:44:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from asahi-net.jp (l205142.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [218.219.205.142]) by mail.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A8ABEE3; Sat, 13 May 2006 16:44:10 +0900 (JST) Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 16:46:42 +0900 From: Watanabe Kazuhiro To: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <008101c675f0$0a881890$6603a8c0@zeus> References: <008101c675f0$0a881890$6603a8c0@zeus> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/20.7 (i386--freebsd) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20060513074410.F0A8ABEE3@mail.asahi-net.or.jp> Cc: Tom Moore Subject: Re: Serial based install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:44:14 -0000 Hi, At Fri, 12 May 2006 14:15:20 -0400, Tom Moore wrote: > Hi guys. > How do I force the FreeBSD to do a serial port based install? > I'm installing on to a laptop, but want to control the install from a serial > port on another machine because I can not see the screen on the laptop. > I tried modifying the boot.flp image and putting a file called boot.conf > with the following line in it: > /boot/loader -h > This didn't seem to work? > Am I modifying the wrong image for this or should I modify one of the kernel > images? > > Please advise what I should do next. > > Thanks, > Tom Try to insert the following line in your /boot/loader.conf at the first line: console="comconsole" See the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html --- Watanabe Kazuhiro (CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp)