From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 27 18: 3:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (roble.com [206.40.34.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E4137B706 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sendmail@roble.com) Received: from roble2.roble.com (roble2.roble.com [206.40.34.52]) by roble.com (Roble1b) with SMTP id SAA06490 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:03:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:03:46 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial console vs. fixit shell, patch wanted In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org J Wunsch 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