From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 16: 6:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E887137B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tcpns.com (dsl-64-192-239-221.telocity.com [64.192.239.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8B043E42 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcborkow@tcpns.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tcpns.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8FN6kMu000363 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:06:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jcborkow@tcpns.com) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:06:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Borkowsky To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Headless FreeBSD/redirecting console Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! I am looking how to make a headless FreeBSD server. I have a box running FreeBSD 4.6.2 and want to redirect console to the serial port. When I do a "man sio": 0x00020 device is forced to become system console So in my kernel file, I added that for sio1, recompile, installed, and rebooted: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x20 irq 3 However, console is still going to the monitor. So how can I redirect it? Also, I have a Tyan motherboard and can redirect console to the serial port, and this works fine until FreeBSD boots. Once it boots, it takes back control and the console once again goes to the monitor. So any info on redirecting console to the serial port would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message