From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 27 1:31: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5D114BF8 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 01:30:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA29840; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:00:54 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA63014; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:00:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:00:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Wemm Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Does booting from install floppy with a serial console still work? Message-ID: <19990427180052.G46511@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990427155741.A46511@freebie.lemis.com> <19990427072411.8BAC21F58@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990427072411.8BAC21F58@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:24:04PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 27 April 1999 at 15:24:04 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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 Oops, sorry, I didn't make as clear as I should have that this was the install floppy. I don't have any difficulties doing this from an installed system (modulo the undocumented fact that if you have sio0 configured as a low-level debug port that it will switch back to vga again). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message