From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 01:24:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA26723 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 01:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail0.iij.ad.jp (root@mail0.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA26700 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 01:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uucp1.iij.ad.jp (uucp1.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.73]) by mail0.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-MAIL) with ESMTP id RAA28194; Thu, 9 May 1996 17:24:42 +0900 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uucp1.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-UUCP) with UUCP id RAA06185; Thu, 9 May 1996 17:24:42 +0900 Received: from xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp by yyy.kgc.co.jp (8.7.5/3.4W:95122611) id QAA11181; Thu, 9 May 1996 16:39:41 +0900 (JST) Received: by xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp (8.6.12/3.3W8:95062916) id QAA00122; Thu, 9 May 1996 16:39:41 +0900 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 16:39:41 +0900 From: Toshihiro Kanda Message-Id: <199605090739.QAA00122@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> To: John Utz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Subject: Re: booting without a monitor? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If there is no monitor on the machine, then syscons spits up and > the machine reboots. I have added "option COMCONSOLE" to the kernel ( as > mentioned in the LINT config file ) without any success. If you don't install video card, remove console device driver (maybe sc0) from your configuration file. But don't remove `sio0' device. Connect serial cable to sio0 and your `serial console machine' by 9600 bps 8bit. I suggest to try booting with option `-h' first to save your compile time. If you can get console message from your serial terminal, then succeed to rebuild a kernel. candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)