Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:10:25 -0400 (EDT) From: <up@3.am> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: console redirection and other kernel options Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990816165711.20604A-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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This is my first BSD installation coming from a Sparc/Solaris background, so please bear with me... 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 which, according to the comments in LINT and everywhere else I check, is supposed to force the OS console to COM1. However, once I get past the bios and the initial kernel load, it stops reporting to the serial console, and it takes no keyboard input from the vt320 I have hooked up there. If a vga monitor and PC keyboard are hooked up, they work fine and it otherwise boots normally. 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 <cough> 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? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= ISPF 3 - The Forum for ISPs by ISPs(tm) || Nov 15-17, 1999, New Orleans 3 days of clues, news, and views from the industry's best and brightest. Visit <http://www.ispf.com/>; for information and registration. ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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