Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:00:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does booting from install floppy with a serial console still work? Message-ID: <19990427180052.G46511@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990427072411.8BAC21F58@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:24:04PM %2B0800 References: <19990427155741.A46511@freebie.lemis.com> <19990427072411.8BAC21F58@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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On Tuesday, 27 April 1999 at 15:24:04 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> I've just tried to capture the sequence of booting on 3.1 for the next >> edition of "The Complete FreeBSD". I was somewhat less than >> successful. Simply removing the keyboard and telling the BIOS I had >> none had no effect whatsoever: it went on merrily booting from floppy >> and displaying on the monitor. >> >> Next, I tried interrupting the first level boot. This worked fine: I >> got my connection on the serial line, but I couldn't find anything to >> boot. Here's the dialogue: >> >> Connected. >>>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >> Default: 0:fd(0,a)boot >> boot: (pressed Enter) >> No boot > > Hmm, that should be /boot/loader, not boot. This works for me... > >>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: > /-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\ > Console: serial port > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > [..] > > But I have: # cat /boot.config > /boot/loader -P Oops, sorry, I didn't make as clear as I should have that this was the install floppy. I don't have any difficulties doing this from an installed system (modulo the undocumented fact that if you have sio0 configured as a low-level debug port that it will switch back to vga again). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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