From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 06:10:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542F816A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:10:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FAD43D49 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:10:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ABDC4CC4B; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.46.52] (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F4C4CBF1; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:10:12 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <43704138.2060007@roq.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:10:00 +1100 From: Michael VInce User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Isley References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 6-release cd install, no serial console joy X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:10:04 -0000 I am having similar problems on a Dell 2850 using 6.0R AMD64, but I believe its not something to do with my hardware although I don't have any other AMD64/EMT64 server to test on. I don't think I have actually done a ISO install via serial console on 6.0-Release but I think I did on beta versions and it did work. I have been trying to do a PXE install and watching it all via serial console and it works fine as long as I dont use 6.0-Release files. Using a 6.0beta with PXE is working it fully boots the kernel and brings up sysinstall my only problem now is that when it tries to do a FTP install it goes for a 6.0beta5 directory which doesn't exist. When I try to use a 6.0-Release I can get it to boot loader and then get it to load the kernel but after that it disappears don't get any boot messages at all. Mike Jan Isley wrote: >Trying to install amd64 6.0 release on some Dells, PE850 and PE2850. >BIOS all setup same as what works just fine with 5.4 (both i386 and >amd64 cds). boot -h appears to work until it gets to the loader and >the console output goes to video. No keyboards or monitors plugged >in, just a serial console server. Have tried variations on serial >redirect in the BIOS but nothing seems to work. > >Anyone else have success or no with serial console redirect on amd64 6.0 cd? > >regards, >-Jan > >