From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 11:07:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEAB16A4CF for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:07:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E2F43D1F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:07:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id D71EE5310; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:07:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 4C838530A; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:07:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id F328EB873; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:07:22 +0200 (CEST) To: Ceri Davies References: <20040912192751.GA1538@submonkey.net> <000e01c49a74$e37a6670$6501a8c0@aaron> <20040914161337.GK1538@submonkey.net> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:07:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040914161337.GK1538@submonkey.net> (Ceri Davies's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:13:37 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.64 cc: doc@FreeBSD.org cc: Aaron Gibson Subject: Re: 2.12 Advanced Installation Guide (Headless Install) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:07:31 -0000 Ceri Davies writes: > Thanks Aaron - I don't believe that this is correct: > > Here is where you must set the floppy to boot into a serial console. Y= ou > have to make a file called boot.config containing /boot/loader -h. All > this does is pass a flag to the bootloader to boot into a serial > console. >=20=20=20=20 > # echo "/boot/loader -h" > boot.config > > I've always used just "-h" here; I'll test it and update it if > necessary. You're saying that it *does* work though? It should work. You can put anything in /boot.config that you'd type at the boot1 prompt, including the disk and slice to boot from (default: 0:ad(0,a)) and the binary to load (default: /boot/loader). You can even set it to "/boot/kernel/kernel" to bypass the loader altogether, though you won't get a fully functional system (kldload won't work, amongst other things) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no