From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 27 0:24:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A391517E for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAC21F58; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:24:04 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Does booting from install floppy with a serial console still work? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:57:42 +0930." <19990427155741.A46511@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:24:04 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990427072411.8BAC21F58@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 Hmm, that should be /boot/loader, not boot. This works for me... >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader boot: /-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\ Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 [..] But I have: # cat /boot.config /boot/loader -P Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message