From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 2:40:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5FF37B404; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 02:40:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub3.liv.ac.uk (mailhub3.liv.ac.uk [138.253.100.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC33D43E3B; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 02:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pp0u20d9@liverpool.ac.uk) Received: from webmail2.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.100.134]) by mailhub3.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18Eokn-0004dk-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:40:13 +0000 Received: by webmail2.liv.ac.uk (8.11.6+Sun/8.10.2/ajt05Jan2002) id gALAeDO21394; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:40:13 GMT Message-Id: <200211211040.gALAeDO21394@webmail2.liv.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:40:12 -0000 X-Originating-IP: [138.253.231.151] Subject: Re: your mail User-Agent: IMHO/0.98.2 (Webmail for Roxen) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Chris Howells To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Argh, sorry about loosing the subject. Unfortunately messages from my normal ISP are't getting through to freebsd.org mailng lists (I've contacted them about it) and I'm having to use a crappy uni web mail system) which I'm not used to, so forgot the subject.... --------------- reply ---------------- > If you have a second box and a null modem cable, you can set up FreeBSD to > use a serial console by unplugging the keyboard. You can then capture the > boot output on the second machine and e-mail that out. If it doesn't > automatically use the serial console w/o a keyboard, you can do: Thanks for the reply. Sadly this isn't going to be possible since my laptop doesn't have a serial port :( I'll have to try the verbose boot, that may give more information. Cheers, Chris Howells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message