Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:41:49 -0700 From: Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com> To: ben@electricembers.net Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Turn off serial console on boot Message-ID: <48B46A8D.6080301@smartt.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0808261254040.45456@internal.electricembers.net> References: <48B2EAD6.8000903@smartt.com> <Pine.BSF.4.64.0808261254040.45456@internal.electricembers.net>
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ben@electricembers.net wrote: >> 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" This server does not have a ps2 port (USB only). Is there any other way? It's quite a pain to have to boot off an install disk and rename the boot.config file if I need to get into single user mode. Especially since this server takes about 5 minutes to POST.
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