From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 11:30:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pcjfn.msc.com (pcjfn.msc.com [192.246.38.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A72A37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfn@localhost) by pcjfn.msc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17794 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:30:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:30:14 -0600 (CST) From: "J.F. Noonan" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Serial Consoles In-Reply-To: <44zogshenx.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello daemons, I have read these pages: http://page.novgorod.ru/freebsd/handbook/x12104.html http://www.gelatinous.com/aaron/tips/freebsd-serial-console and the various man pages (boot(8), loader(8), etc) and the big fat book. I have also reviewed the LINT kernel file and the sysctl manpage. I can the system to start to load at the serial console. I can interrupt it before the countdown finishes and specify flags to the kernel (I am most interested in '-s', single user), but then when I tell it to boot it returns control to the VGA console. I have tried all the permutations of -D, -h , and -P and none will cause the *kernel*, not the loader to use the serial console. If anybody has gotten this to work, I would sure appreciate any advice you have. thx, -- Joseph F. Noonan Systems Manager Rigaku/MSC jfn@msc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message