From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 08:26:39 2008 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651291065690 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:26:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from k0802647@telus.net) Received: from defout.telus.net (defout.telus.net [204.209.205.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CE88FC12 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:26:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from k0802647@telus.net) Received: from priv-edmwaa04.telusplanet.net ([204.209.205.55]) by priv-edmwes23.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20081005082638.DED11592.priv-edmwes23.telusplanet.net@priv-edmwaa04.telusplanet.net> for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 02:26:38 -0600 Received: from oliver.bc.lan (d75-157-28-2.bchsia.telus.net [75.157.28.2]) by priv-edmwaa04.telusplanet.net (BorderWare Security Platform) with ESMTP id B02F353438301454 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 02:35:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [10.111.111.112] (unknown [10.111.111.112]) by oliver.bc.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9ABA61E0 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 01:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48E87A3D.8030302@telus.net> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:26:37 -0700 From: Carl <k0802647@telus.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <48E345AF.6050409@telus.net> <20081001112826.GA20013@icarus.home.lan> <48E3DCB1.3010009@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <48E3DCB1.3010009@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:26:39 -0000 On Thu Oct 2 06:59:47 UTC 2008 Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On a system running 6.2-RELEASE, with a 6.2-RELEASE Disc 1 in the CD drive but > not mounted: > > mkdir serialcd > > tar xvfC /dev/acd0 serialcd > > These two commands created a directory tree in serialcd containing most of the > contents of the CD. There was a ``tar ignoring out-of-order file'' error, and > when I mounted the CD and ran > > diff -qr /cdrom serialcd > > it reported that RELNOTES.TXT differed - in fact the version in the serialcd > directory turned out to have zero length. [I suspect you could probably do > this comparison quicker with mtree, and I never did bother to fix it or find > out why it was happening] Thanks, Jonathan. So I've redone the process again. I'm working from the original ISO image instead of a physical CD copy of it, so I utilize step 4 from Jeremy Chadwick's document (http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html) to make the initial directory tree. There are no tar error messages. > I edited serialcd/boot/loader.conf to include the line > > console="comconsole" I did exactly that, although I also tried adding the following lines instead on a separate attempt: boot_multicons="NO" boot_serial="YES" comconsole_speed="115200" console="comconsole" > I then ran > > mkisofs -J -r -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -o serialcd.iso serialcd > > and got an ISO image, serial.iso, which is about 600MB. Your switches are a little different from my original procedure, so this time I used yours. > The only drawback with this method is that the serial console only cuts in > just before the boot menu. I suspect that if you wanted to have a serial > console for every stage of the boot you would need to mess about with the > ramdisk image on the CD. So creating a boot.config in the root of the CD image cannot be used the way it is for a hard drive installation in order to solve that problem? Anyway, I didn't create a boot.config this time, so I should have ended up with a 7.0 equivalent of your 6.2 serialcd.iso, which I then burned and tried. End result? Abject failure again. All boot stages still use the internal console. Just after "Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf" appears, there is a *very* long pause added as compared with the unmodified install CD. Eventually it resumes. Don't know why that's happening. Carl / K0802647