From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 07:30:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03A116A400 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCFD13C448 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2001FFE97; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:30:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 28E741FFDFC; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB69F444927; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:30:06 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: Jason Evans In-Reply-To: <461AC6EC.6030401@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20070410072507.D36917@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <461AC6EC.6030401@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:30:20 -0000 On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Jason Evans wrote: > I tried various methods for installing the March 2007 snapshot using PXE (no > CD-ROM drive), but I ran into a combination of problems that made this > seemingly impossible. > > 2) When booting with a serial console, the machine switches back to the vga > console when sysinstall launches. The 6.2 snapshot has the same problem. > Perhaps there is a bad interaction with pxeboot, but I'm not familiar enough > with the boot process to know where to look. yes, ran into something like that before. boot -h does not seem to do the trick. But if you do set console="comconsole" at the loader prompt it should work. I have no idea why that's the way it is. I spent half an hour looking at the code and then a "timeout fired". May I add another item? 3) in systinstall when one adds a user to a different partition like /u1 with a home of /u1/home/bz that did not work. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT