Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:03:46 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial console vs. fixit shell, patch wanted Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000327175949.17770B-100000@roble2.roble.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000227104835.28528A-100000@roble2.roble.com>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >> cannot find the fixit.flp source code. >> Anyone know where to look? > >All over the place in /usr/src. The main source is in >/usr/src/release/sysinstall/, that's probably where you can find the >point the fixit shell is being started on ttyv3. This particular system was fixed by swapping out the x86 for a Sparc AXi motherboard. Sparc's default nicely to a serial console and are free of the problems associated with FreeBSD's fixit code. I would like to use headless 2U FreeBSD systems in the future however. To that end I'd be willing to pay someone for a patch (open source of course). The spec requires only that the system drop into a fixit shell when the fixit option is selected, without requiring Alt-F4 or another key sequence. Returning from the fixit shell is unnecessary as the system is rebooted after that point. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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