From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 28 19:56:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20202 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20081; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:56:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02681; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:50:35 +1000 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:50:35 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199804290250.MAA02681@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jamesn@airmail.net, jamesn@iadfw.net, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/5637 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> 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