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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:56:24 -0800
From:      Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: diskless/serial-console
Message-ID:  <20001130085624.A74146@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <E141VPC-0003VD-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>; from danny@cs.huji.ac.il on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:13:49PM %2B0200
References:  <E141VPC-0003VD-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>

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Danny Braniss (danny@cs.huji.ac.il) wrote:
> 
> }There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use:
> }http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch
> }
> }This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot.
> }
> thanks,
> 	i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1
> removed the keyboard, but zero.
> i even commented out the ifdef(`PROBE_KEYBOARD',`
> and the test for the keyboard, only left 
> 		orb $RBX_SERIAL, (%bx)		# enable serial console
> and still no output, btw, once the system is running, i can tip and it's ok.
> is the serial set to 9600?
> 
> is there a way to tell whoever, to send kernel panics to serial? because that's
> all i want.

Is a keyboard plugged into the machine?  If you want to force serial
output, set console="comconsole" in your loader.conf.

> Grrr, all this was to catch a panic that im getting, but now they stopped.

DDB and
BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER or ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER


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