Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:00:28 GMT From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/95408: install over serial console does not work as documented Message-ID: <200604061600.k36G0SDR026126@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/95408; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/95408: install over serial console does not work as documented Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:58:20 -0400 On Thursday 06 April 2006 08:29, Harti Brandt wrote: > > >Number: 95408 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: install over serial console does not work as documented > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Priority: low > >Responsible: freebsd-doc > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: doc-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 06 12:30:20 GMT 2006 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Harti Brandt > >Release: 6.1-beta4 > >Organization: > DLR > >Environment: > >Description: > The installation document describes a procedure to install on i386 over a > serial console. It recommends to either unplug the keyboard or to interrupt the boot and boot with boot -h. > > Boot -h turns out not to work. While all the kernel messages from the probing > appear on both the normal console and the serial one, after mounting the root > file system the system switches entirely to the normal console. > > Instead the following procedure will do it (but require at least a keyboard on the machine in question): > > - interrupt the boot in the boot menu by pressing 6 > - enter the following lines: > > set boot_multicons="YES" > set boot_serial="YES" > set console="comconsole" > boot Are you doing 'boot -h' at the loader prompt? I think all you need to do is break into the loader and do: set console="comconsole vidconsole" instead. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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