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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:57:42 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Does booting from install floppy with a serial console still work?
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I've just tried to capture the sequence of booting on 3.1 for the next
edition of "The Complete FreeBSD".  I was somewhat less than
successful.  Simply removing the keyboard and telling the BIOS I had
none had no effect whatsoever: it went on merrily booting from floppy
and displaying on the monitor.

Next, I tried interrupting the first level boot.  This worked fine: I
got my connection on the serial line, but I couldn't find anything to
boot.  Here's the dialogue:

   Connected.
   >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
   Default: 0:fd(0,a)boot
   boot:	(pressed Enter) 
   No boot
    
   >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
   Default: 0:fd(0,a)boot
   boot: fd()kernel
    
   >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
   Default: 0:fd(0,a)boot
   boot: kernel
   No kernel
    
   >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
   Default: 0:fd(0,a)kernel
   boot: ?
   . .. boot kernel.gz kernel.config 
    
   >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
   Default: 0:fd(0,a)?
   boot: kernel.gz
   Invalid format
    
   >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
   Default: 0:fd(0,a)kernel
   boot: peace
   No peace

Any ideas?

Greg
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