From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 15:14:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FA01065670 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:14:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4F48FC16 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qe7KY-0001gA-MV for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:14:30 +0200 Received: from dtmd-4db2d4d7.pool.mediaways.net ([77.178.212.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:14:30 +0200 Received: from christian.baer by dtmd-4db2d4d7.pool.mediaways.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:14:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Christian Baer Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:14:18 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <52F39CE0-EEC7-4180-8186-BF8696AF279D@lassitu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dtmd-4db2d4d7.pool.mediaways.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Crashes with Promise controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:14:33 -0000 On 01.07.2011 12:18, Tom Evans wrote: Hey guys! Thanks for all the answers! I'm sorry, mine take a while. This server is my personal machine which I work on in my spare time. As it seems, the last few weeks I was getting very little time to spare. :-/ >> A serial console is easy enough to set up on a Sun for example, but in >> this case, I am running a simple AthlonXP, which has nothing for that >> sort of help. I would need a special card for that and those cose quite >> a bit. :-( > Not that special - you just need a serial port on two computers. If > your computers don't have serial ports, USB serial adapters work fine, > and are cheap, as are (single port) PCI serial cards. Yeah, the post you are referring to is a little awkward for me because I was just too thick to get what you guys were on about. I was thinking along the lines of a card that also allows BIOS access (what Intel calls RMM, IIRC). After the fact that the serial console within the kernel would suffice struck me like lightning, it was set up within about 2 minutes - including the reboot. :-) Best regards, Chris