Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:16:17 -0400 From: "Aaron Gibson" <aaron@the-gibsons.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22'?= <des@des.no>, "'Ceri Davies'" <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: 2.12 Advanced Installation Guide (Headless Install) Message-ID: <000401c4a4df$9c6df290$6501a8c0@aaron> In-Reply-To: <xzpfz54ug0l.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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All- Just for clarification, it does work. The problem that I was having was = a due to a mis-configuration in the BIOS. BIOS was set to send serial = output to a COM port that did not physically exist. Once I fixed that = everything worked fine. Though, it would be nice if there were a command line = switch that could be placed in the boot.config file to enable serial console = login. Thank you both for your help. Aaron Gibson aaron@the-gibsons.org -----Original Message----- From: "Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav" [mailto:des@des.no]=20 Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:07 AM To: Ceri Davies Cc: Aaron Gibson; doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.12 Advanced Installation Guide (Headless Install) 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. You > 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 > # 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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