Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:50:35 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jamesn@airmail.net, jamesn@iadfw.net, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/5637 Message-ID: <199804290250.MAA02681@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Synopsis: Not quite possible to install FreeBSD from a serial console >> >> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed >> State-Changed-By: phk >> State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 27 09:53:40 PDT 1998 >> State-Changed-Why: >> kind of a catch22 there... > >Care to elaborate? If the boot blocks simply bother to probe the >keyboard on startup there does not seem to be a problem. (in fact, as >a hack, after I make a boot disk I add -P to boot.config on the [real] >root file system of the boot disk.) A misprobe would give the same bootstrapping problem for the usual case. -P may be safe, but it hasn't been tested much. The more useful -D causes strange problems if sio0 is connected to a mouse or the air - it can pick up mouse chatter or radiation. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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