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Date:      Wed, 12 May 2004 15:05:12 -0700
From:      Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To:        Muthu_T@Dell.com
Cc:        freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Normal Booting on Dell PE3250
Message-ID:  <40A29F98.5090604@intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA14DB3F1@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com>
References:  <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA14DB3F1@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com>

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On 5/12/2004 5:28 AM, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote:

>>>On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:10:18PM +0530, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> Now FreeBSD boots, but no console output.
>>> Still I have to use the Serial Console?
> 
>>Yes.
> 
> I went to single user mode. Edited the '/etc/ttys' file in
> The /dev/ttyu1 with '/usr/libexec/getty std.115200 cons25 on secure'
> line.
> (ie modified the Baud rate and TERM type). Now I can login via Serial
> Console.
> 
> Thanks folks for your help.
> 
> The 2 issues I found here:
> 
> 1. pressing backspace 2 or 3 times in the mountroot> prompt drops me in
> the 
>    gdb> shell. 

I'm not sure why. Marcel, do you know ?

> 
> 2. after 'mountroot>ufs:da0p6' line, it mounts the / (root) filesystem
> in readonly

This is because the installer doesn't put a line for "/" in /etc/fstab. If you remount the root read/write:

mount -o rw /dev/da0p6 /
vi /etc/fstab

the problem should go away.

	-Arun



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