From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 10 13:25:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dcnv.com (mail.dcnv.com [216.33.117.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C51A37B712 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Received: from digitalconvergence.com (dallas [207.158.100.67]) by mail.dcnv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA68258 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:24:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Message-ID: <396A3126.78203836@digitalconvergence.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:25:10 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at hard coding a serial console into BTX. Normally, you put the -h option into /boot.conf, but PXE doesn't read that. I tried putting console=comconsole into /boot/loader.rc, but it didn't work quite right. I modified src/sys/boot/i386/common/conf.c and removed the vidconsole option and that worked. I could set the flags in the kernel to 0x20 to force serial and that worked. I'd like a more 'supported' option. That allowed me access to BTX before booting the kernel. Does anyone have a suggestion? Is there a /etc/make.conf option I could set? Thanks. -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology DigitalConvergence.:Com aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message