Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:07:22 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: Aaron Gibson <aaron@the-gibsons.org> Subject: Re: 2.12 Advanced Installation Guide (Headless Install) Message-ID: <xzpfz54ug0l.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040914161337.GK1538@submonkey.net> (Ceri Davies's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:13:37 %2B0100") References: <20040912192751.GA1538@submonkey.net> <000e01c49a74$e37a6670$6501a8c0@aaron> <20040914161337.GK1538@submonkey.net>
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Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> 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
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