From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 20:41:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C77106564A for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from barium.smartt.com (barium.smartt.com [69.67.187.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7618FC1C for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from [69.31.174.220] (unknown [69.31.174.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by barium.smartt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06D7710E49C; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48B46A8D.6080301@smartt.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:41:49 -0700 From: Chris St Denis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ben@electricembers.net References: <48B2EAD6.8000903@smartt.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Turn off serial console on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:41:50 -0000 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.