From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 18:50:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD1C37B401; Fri, 16 May 2003 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA9843F75; Fri, 16 May 2003 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A31E72FDC; Fri, 16 May 2003 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2720872FD1; Fri, 16 May 2003 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: lars lindgren In-Reply-To: <1053000379.5c18f1c0lasse.lindgren@home.se> Message-ID: <20030516184844.X28851@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <1053000379.5c18f1c0lasse.lindgren@home.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pxe install freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 01:50:37 -0000 On Thu, 15 May 2003, lars lindgren wrote: > Its capable of pxebooting, (im from the linux world) hda is a 16M cf > Hdb is a standard harddrive. User interface is a serialport, running > @38400,8n1. NIC is a eepro100 > > The computer is currently installed with linux, but since i have many > computers like this one, i thought about migrating into freebsd. > > I guess in linuxterm's i need a kernel and a rootdisk with the install > package. I tried the ones from the cd, it didn't give me any output on > the serial port. (that i know workes, since before it loads the kernel i > have to type what it should boot ...) Serial port is running @38400,8n1 the default serial console speed for FreeBSD is 9600, for starters. The BIOS is doing some sort of vga to serial redirection? This sounds like the soekris equipment, although for mine I loaded the CF with a laptop. So exactly what are you trying to start? sysinstall? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org