From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 20 12:50:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C26837B424 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:50:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8KJoIH12683; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:50:18 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Initial installation console Message-ID: <20000920125017.E9141@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20000920153739.02040eb0@64.20.73.233> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20000920153739.02040eb0@64.20.73.233>; from forrie@forrie.com on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:39:20PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Forrest Aldrich [000920 12:46] wrote: > Can the configuration for bootup and initial installation be configured to > detect (and configure) a serial console. This would be very useful for > rackmount systems. Yes, I know it can be done manually after the > installation is completed with a monitor; but this would save some time. > > If I'm missing something obvious, please let me know. I just tested it > with a 2u system, booted up with a serial console, and it wasn't detected. If you boot without a keyboard attached and make sure you're using "Com1" then it should work. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message