From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 10 9:37:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bitbucket.extern.uniface.nl (bitbucket.extern.uniface.nl [193.78.88.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9563A37B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:37:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from bh2.nl.compuware.com (unknown [172.16.17.82]) by bitbucket.extern.uniface.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05CB829D; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:37:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from c1111.nl.compuware.com ([172.16.16.36]) by bh2.nl.compuware.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id CV7M63N8; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:37:18 +0100 Received: from nl.compuware.com (bertd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by c1111.nl.compuware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28315; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:37:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3A5C9DCE.7D7964D1@nl.compuware.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:37:18 +0100 From: Bert Driehuis Organization: Compuware Europe (but I only speak for myself) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; BSD/OS 4.1 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console redirection issues References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010110120541.02420ec0@216.67.14.69> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Forrest Aldrich wrote: > However, when we went to install the 1U system, we were only able to see > the prompts up to the point where FreeBSD began the boot process. This > doesn't make sense, as our configs are all the same (port address, > boot.config, etc.). Our boot.config files contain "-P -D -h". I haven't actually tested this, but the documentation for boot(8) says that '-D' and 'h' toggle the bhavior, and that '-P' sets -D and -h. This might mean that -P sets -D and -h, and the subsequent -D and -h *reset* them once again. I'd suggest removing them; I'm running with just -D just fine. Cheers, --- Bert -- Bert Driehuis, MIS -- bert_driehuis@nl.compuware.com -- +31-20-3116119 Dihydrogen Monoxide kills! Join the campaign at http://www.dhmo.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message