From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 16 14:56:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D315514C46 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwyatt@bsdie.rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (2115 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:44:56 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:44:45 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: up@3.am Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console redirection and other kernel options In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 up@3.am wrote: > This is my first BSD installation coming from a Sparc/Solaris background, > so please bear with me... Welcome aboard! > I've built a rackmount server that I'd like to be able to get into the > console remotely, via a direct connection from a PM2. I've got the bios > to come come up over the serial connection (it's an Intel L440GX+ with > console redirection support) and I built a new kernel with: > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x20 tty irq 4 This just configures the serial port device into the kernel. You need that to use a serial console or dialup modem. It's an important first step! 8{) You might also look-into adding this line to your kernel: options CONSPEED=38400 #default speed for serial console (default 9600) To get a getty on the serial line, allowing you a login prompt, try adding this line to /etc/ttys and signalling init: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" vt320 on secure > Any hints on how to get this working, would be greatly appreciated. On a > somewhat related note, I noticed that the original GENERIC kernel was > about 2.3MB, and this new one that I built is 8.3MB, even though I > mostly just commented stuff out in the config file. Is this normal, ie > the original kernel is compressed or something? Yikes! Most of my Kernels are 1-2MB. Is this file size, memory footprint, or what? Removing lots of unused drivers helps quite a bit. I think the kernel is compressed, there is gzip code in it. HTH - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message