From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 20 13:49:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8034737B424 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8KKn7617865; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:49:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Initial installation console In-Reply-To: Message from Forrest Aldrich of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:39:20 EDT." <5.0.0.25.2.20000920153739.02040eb0@64.20.73.233> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:49:07 -0700 Message-ID: <17861.969482947@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Can the configuration for bootup and initial installation be configured to > detect (and configure) a serial console. This would be very useful for The current installation "detects" serial console situations if you have a BIOS capable of properly instructing the loader about this or if you explicitly boot with -P at the first-stage loader. After that, sysinstall should properly fail to open /dev/ttyv0 and trundle on using the serial console instead of a graphics card. My question is simply what you mean by "configure" in this context. You want it to write an /etc/ttys entry out for a specific serial device? I suppose we could also just turn the console entry on as a wimp-out in such scenarios and get away with it. That's assuming, of course, I am clear on what you mean. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message