Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:57:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Does booting from install floppy with a serial console still work? Message-ID: <19990427155741.A46511@freebie.lemis.com>
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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 >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)boot boot: fd()kernel >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)boot boot: kernel No kernel >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)kernel boot: ? . .. boot kernel.gz kernel.config >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)? boot: kernel.gz Invalid format >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)kernel boot: peace No peace Any ideas? 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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