Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:25:10 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <396A3126.78203836@digitalconvergence.com>
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I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at hard coding a serial console into BTX. Normally, you put the -h option into /boot.conf, but PXE doesn't read that. I tried putting console=comconsole into /boot/loader.rc, but it didn't work quite right. I modified src/sys/boot/i386/common/conf.c and removed the vidconsole option and that worked. I could set the flags in the kernel to 0x20 to force serial and that worked. I'd like a more 'supported' option. That allowed me access to BTX before booting the kernel. Does anyone have a suggestion? Is there a /etc/make.conf option I could set? Thanks. -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology DigitalConvergence.:Com aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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