Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:13:34 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: tyler spivey <tspivey8@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd sysinstall Message-ID: <20010624231334.M11961@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200106231637.f5NGbu900408@home.com>; from tspivey8@home.com on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:37:56PM -0400 References: <200106231637.f5NGbu900408@home.com>
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:37:56PM -0400, tyler spivey wrote:
> if i am on a serial console (without alt-ctrl-fx capability) how would i access the fixit shell in mfsroot?
> [if their are any developers monitoring this list, can you look into that?
> ]
> i am blind, and i use a speech device on a pc on ttysS0. (ttyd0).
> how would i access stuff that says "hit alt-ctrl-f2"?
> (it's a low-spec ms-dos pc.)
I've had this same problem several times. You boot the kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp and go to the "Fixit" option on the serial console which
tells you to hit Alt-F4 to go to the VTY with the shell. Uhh... Hello?
Serial console. That should teach me to run -CURRENT on a box I only
have a serial console on since I b0rk it up so much.
Anyway, I spent a while yesterday figuring out PicoBSD and making
a single fixit-type floppy that is works on a serial console. I could
not get the thing to detect the presence or absence of a keyboard
dynamically even though the kern.flp can do it. Fiddling with the
'boot.config' in the floppy.tree didn't seem to make a difference for
me. I had to resort to building a kernel that always goes to the
serial console.
I was going to refine these a bit more, but I've have this odd serial
port lockup problem I reported on -stable last night and cannot
really do any testing at the moment.
Anyway, take the attached tar file and expand it in
/usr/src/release/picobsd. Then go to the build/ directory and type,
# ./picobsd
Go to the second (T) option and select the 'fixit' target and then
build it from the first menu. Viola! You have a fixit-type floppy that
boots to the serial console. You can poke around in the files in there
and customize it if need be.
If my serial console ever becomes usable again, I might try to figure
out how to the do the auto-detect. I could check with the PicoBSD guys
and then add and maintain a PicoBSD fixit if there is interest.
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Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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