From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 02:46:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DD216A420 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:46:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD64043D46 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:46:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F3P3F-00047D-HQ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:45:59 +0100 Received: from 69-171-193-20.sbtnvt.adelphia.net ([69.171.193.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:45:57 +0100 Received: from scott by 69-171-193-20.sbtnvt.adelphia.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:45:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Scott I. Remick" Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:45:37 -0500 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1138530083.23657.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-171-193-20.sbtnvt.adelphia.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) X-Archive: encrypt Sender: news Subject: Re: serial console for dummies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:46:05 -0000 On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +0000, Robert Slade wrote: > I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they > should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log Last few times I remember looking, there was nothing logged. This lead me to believe that the lockup happened too fast for the output to the logfile to be saved to disk. Hence my desire for a capture on a separate terminal (which presumably might make it). > Another thought is to connect via a network connection and SSH into the > machine that will give you a console. Unfortunately the laptop I have for this use has no network connection, and it would also require getting FreeBSD working on this ancient (486) thing, which is probably about as much fun as giving yourself a root canal. I have questions about the condition of the HDD anyways (I was going to use a boot floppy, running DOS and a terminal app).