From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 9 08:16:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06085 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 08:16:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from Guard.PolyNet.Lviv.UA (Guard.PolyNet.Lviv.UA [194.44.138.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06073 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 08:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by Guard.PolyNet.Lviv.UA (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA21466 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:15:23 +0200 Received: from netsurfer.lp.lviv.ua(192.168.0.3) by Guard.PolyNet.Lviv.UA via smap (V2.0beta) id xma021464; Sat, 9 Nov 96 18:15:14 +0200 Received: (from smap@localhost) by NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA07885 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:15:12 +0200 Message-Id: <199611091615.SAA07885@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua> Received: from ws2.lp.lviv.ua(192.168.0.33) by NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua via smap (V2.0beta) id xma007879; Sat, 9 Nov 96 18:15:01 +0200 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Adrian Pavlykevych" To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:15:50 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Bootstrap doesn't recognize keyboardless config Reply-to: pam@polynet.lviv.ua Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi everybody, I have stuck trying to setup headless (w/o keyboard, monitor) server. I can force kernel and boot to use serial console via COMCONSOLE and FORCE_COMCOMSOLE compile options, but README.serial in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot states that default behaviour of bootstrap code is as follows: if it detects keyboard it starts with video console, if no it switches to serial console. I can't get it to work this way. It seems that bootstrap doesn't detect that keyboard is absent. Can somebody give some sound advices? Adrian Pavlykevych | State University "Lvivska Polytechnica" System Administrator | 12, St. Bandery str, Campus Computer Network | Lviv, 290646 email: pam@polynet.lviv.ua | Ukraine tel/fax:+380 (322) 742041 |