Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:42:05 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: Adrian Pavlykevych <pam@polynet.lviv.ua> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootstrap doesn't recognize keyboardless config Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961109153743.25819P-100000@nike> In-Reply-To: <199611091615.SAA07885@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua>
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On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Adrian Pavlykevych wrote: > 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? sure... rebuild the boot blocks with FORCE_COMCONSOLE enabled... edit the makefile for this... then install with a command similar to disklabel -B <disk> (of course after make install'ing the boot blocks)... I had to do that to force the boot blocks to come up on the com console... hope this helps.. ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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