Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:35:35 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: "'R. Lahaye'" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Boot over serial port. How? Message-ID: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239259FFD@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> In-Reply-To: <3B56510F.54724205@users.sourceforge.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: R. Lahaye [mailto:lahaye@users.sourceforge.net] > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:17 PM > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Boot over serial port. How? > > > > Hi, > > I have a headless PC: no videocard, no monitor attached. > I decided to install FreeBSD, since it appears to be the only free > OS that can INSTALL over the serial port. That part went all well. > > When I reboot this system, it reports the boot messages to the > serial-connected console. However, after the boot messages, there's > no login prompt on the serial-console. > > Why can I not login over the serial port after the boot? > Can someone give me a clue what sort of things I may overlook? See the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu p.html. Look at 16.6.4.4 in particular. HTH, Drew > > Thanks, > Rob. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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