From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 5 04:07:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA06227 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 04:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA06222 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 04:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.efn.org [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA01615 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 04:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 04:08:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: FreeBSD without console In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Igigi International wrote: > > > On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > > > As francis yeung wrote: > > > > > Is there a way that I can run without > > > any console port i.e. no VGA or COM1 port and redirect > > > the console output to a file so that I can login from > > > another workstation remotely using tail -f "console file". > > > > No. The console must exist (if it exists at all) before the root file > > system is mounted. > > > I've been able to use FreeBSD sucessfully even after having removed the > video card and disabling the BIOS check for it. FSD probably just had no > idea the video was missing although console data was still being sent to > this 'screen'. I've come across a problem.... when I run without a video card and run comconsole... it likes to panic when sc0 is enabled.. is this normal? (oh and the panics just srcoll right off the screen.. if you would like I could log them...) just wondering.. thanks for all the help.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)