From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 07:18:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157E016A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:18:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (mx1.FreeBSDsystems.COM [69.90.68.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A89743D31 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:18:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM) Received: (qmail 63832 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jan 2005 07:18:17 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.0.8 ppid: 63821, pid: 63824, t: 3.3078s scanners: attach: 1.0.8 clamav: 0.80rc4/m:28/d:644 spam: 3.0.0 Received: from unknown (HELO FreeBSDsystems.COM) (lnb@216.235.8.115) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 07:18:14 -0000 Message-ID: <41DCE618.8060601@FreeBSDsystems.COM> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:17:44 -0500 From: Lanny Baron Organization: Freedom Technologies Corp; FreeBSD Systems, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Aquilina References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on mx1.freebsdsystems.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,COMPLETELY_FREE autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial Console Install X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:18:23 -0000 Hi, If you are trying to install FreeBSD on a bare system (workstation or server) do the following: 1) press 6 at the loader prompt (when you get the neat text-graphic of Beastie 2) you should get a 'OK' 3) type: set console=comconsole 3) you will get another 'OK' 4) type boot That should get you going. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= David Aquilina wrote: > I've asked this question before as part of another post, however it > seems people ignore it. So, I thought I'd break it out separately. > > I'm trying to do a serial console installation for various reasons. > However, it stops at this point: > > md0: Preloaded image 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff808e4ba0 > ad0: 78533MB [159560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 > ATAPI_RESET time = 50us > acd0: CDRW at ata1-master UDMA33 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0 > > I set the "console" variable in the loader to "comconsole", then in > the serial console boot with "boot -h". I've also tried "boot -D", but > it still stops at the same point. I've tried this with both > 5.2.1-RELEASE and a recent 5.3-BETA. > > Am I doing something wrong, or have I run across a bug? > > If a bug, what's the proper way to report it? > > Thanks. >