From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 31 14:58:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA18007 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17990 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.6.10/DPC-1.0) with SMTP id OAA01339; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:42:36 -0700 Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 14:42:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow X-Sender: dan@cedb To: J Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers , francis yeung Subject: Re: FreeBSD without console In-Reply-To: <199608310553.HAA07064@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As francis yeung wrote: > > Is there a way that I can run without > > any console port i.e. no VGA or COM1 port and redirect > No. The console must exist (if it exists at all) before the root file > system is mounted. Sure you can. Boot with -c and disable sc0. After the system comes up unplug your monitor and keyboard, telnet in and shut it down with a -r. It'll come right back up. Make sure your BIOS isn't halting on kb errors. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 dmesg from my ethernet router FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Apr 29 21:55:37 PDT 1996 dan@trestles.beach.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/Beach-1 CPU: i486 DX2 (486-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x435 Stepping=5 Features=0x3 real memory = 4194304 (4096K bytes) avail memory = 2564096 (2504K bytes) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0: disabled, not probed. ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 3 on isa ed0: address 00:40:05:16:78:83, type NE2000 (16 bit) ed1 at 0x320-0x33f irq 4 on isa ed1: address 00:40:05:23:22:6f, type NE2000 (16 bit) ed2 at 0x340-0x35f irq 5 on isa ed2: address 00:40:05:20:ba:a9, type NE2000 (16 bit) ed3 at 0x360-0x37f irq 10 on isa ed3: address 00:40:05:24:1c:93, type NE2000 (16 bit) cy0: disabled, not probed. fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 72065B fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 1222MB (2503872 sectors), 2484 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ahb0 not found aha0 not probed due to I/O address conflict with ed1 at 0x330 aic0 not probed due to I/O address conflict with ed2 at 0x340 wt0: disabled, not probed. mcd0: disabled, not probed. mcd1: disabled, not probed. matcdc0: disabled, not probed. scd0: disabled, not probed. npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface