Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:56:01 -0700 (PDT) From: ben@electricembers.net To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Turn off serial console on boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0808261254040.45456@internal.electricembers.net> In-Reply-To: <48B2EAD6.8000903@smartt.com> References: <48B2EAD6.8000903@smartt.com>
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> I have some servers with IPMI that allow me to have a serial console. I have > setup a serial console config on my servers and it seems to work reasonably > well in remote emergencies, but causes serious problems if I ever have to use > the real console. > > It means that I can't use single user mode from the real console and I can't > see most boot errors. > > Is there a way I can turn off the console redirection from the physical > console interactively on startup? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html We put -P in /boot.config so that if a keyboard is detected then the screen is the console. No keyboard means serial console.
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