On 2006/08/30 16:10, Marian Hettwer wrote: >>> When I set the last paramter to disabled, I don't even see the pxeboot >>> (pxe bootloader) of OpenBSD. Logically, I can't type in "set tty com0". >> >> the console redirection is probably not sharing the serial port >> with the OS - try setting this to "disabled" and place "set tty com0" >> in /etc/boot.conf (as is done when you answer "yes" to the "do you >> want a serial console?" question in the installer). > > Did that. And also "set image bsd.rd" and "boot bsd.rd", as I can't see > anything at this point of my installation if I disabled the console > redirection after boot.
ah, this is pre-install then? are you sure boot.conf is being loaded from the tftp server? (I'm probably stating the obvious here, but it should be in /tftpboot/etc/boot.conf not in /tftpboot/boot.conf, and of course needs to be readable by the tftp server) you only need "set image", not "boot", it should just timeout after 5 seconds and load whatever image is set. > I wouldn't consider disabled the console redirection altogether, 'cause > then you wouldn't have a chance to get into the BIOS. And you do want to > get into the BIOS. well, depends where you expect to have a problem... if it's a choice of only one or the other, I'd rather have OS than BIOS, but BIOS is nice to have too.
