From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 22:56:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A1537B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:56:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.20.155.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0G6uBY89768; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:56:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <005701c07f89$580a6fe0$029b140a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "J.F. Noonan" , Subject: Re: Serial Consoles Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:55:42 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I can the system to start to load at the serial console. I can >interrupt it before the countdown finishes and specify flags to >the kernel (I am most interested in '-s', single user), but then >when I tell it to boot it returns control to the VGA console. >I have tried all the permutations of -D, -h , and -P and none will >cause the *kernel*, not the loader to use the serial console. > >If anybody has gotten this to work, I would sure appreciate any >advice you have. Take a look at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi?sercon and see if it helps you. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message