From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 16:01:50 2007 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 88D4416A417 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from mail.asahi-net.or.jp (mail1.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A8113C45A for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from asahi-net.jp (m038200.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [219.121.38.200]) by mail.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D534673B; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:40:10 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:40:10 +0900 From: Watanabe Kazuhiro To: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <200709181132.l8IBW7wS075929@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200709181132.l8IBW7wS075929@dc.cis.okstate.edu> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/20.7 (i386--freebsd) MULE/4.1 (AOI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20070919154010.6D534673B@mail.asahi-net.or.jp> Cc: Martin McCormick Subject: Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work. 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: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:01:50 -0000 Hi, At Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:32:07 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > As a computer user who happens to be blind, I have > always wanted to use the headless installation method to build > FreeBSD systems. After FreeBSD version 5, things seemed to go a > bit wrong and I am trying to figure out whether it is me not > doing something right or if there is a bug. > > The sequence as I understand it from previous > documentation is to boot the CD, wait for the lull in activity > and then hit the number 6. After that, you type > > boot -h > > and the serial port usually comes up. > > On some systems, it comes up at the wrong speed which > turns out to be 115,200 baud, but it does come up. > > What then happens after that is what I am writing this > message about. > > The kernel on the CD boots but then it can't seem to > find the hard drives and the whole process is dead on arrival > with a spew of errors about not finding any media followed by a > lockup. > > If I have a cowworker help me and run the install off > the new system's video display, all is well and we get a good > FreeBSD installation. > > Can anybody think of a way to get the headless install > to work in FreeBSD 6.2? > > Many thanks. Try: console="comconsole,vidconsole" boot instead of "boot -h". --- Watanabe Kazuhiro (CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) R.I.P. Colin McLae.