From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 9 15:44:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28921 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:44:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA28908 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21711; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:42:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:42:05 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: jmg@nike Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Adrian Pavlykevych cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootstrap doesn't recognize keyboardless config In-Reply-To: <199611091615.SAA07885@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua> 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, 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 (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)