On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 06:58:33PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: | [follow-up on my earlier post on 'mixed' bootloaders] | | Now, what I propose to myself: install via serial console by leaving the | cd40 in the drive and boot with serial console to it. (It is difficult for | me to access my boxes out there, but someone can always insert a CDROM for | me). | So far, I (read the archives) and tried 'set tty com0', but it wouldn't | work. I tried to disable BIOS redirection, but the buggers need to restart | (and then there's naught at all). | As far as I understand, I'd need a cd40_mod.iso, which redirects the | output to com0 in /etc/boot.conf, activating in /etc/ttys; and then | everything (install and upgrade) should be fine, through serial port.
Setting tty to com0 in /etc/boot.conf should be all you need. But there may be issues on your machine that prevent this from working the way it should. Check that at least your serial cable is known good. On a similar system, try to get a getty(8) going on tty00 and log in over that. If that works, go back to figuring out the redirection on boot. | My questions: | 1. Am I right, is this finally supposed to work ? This should work, although you don't need /etc/ttys-changes for the installer (as that runs on console and doesn't look at the ttys file) | 2. Does anyone have a cd40.iso for amd64 readily available ? Not yet, maybe next week .. try http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial | (3. Does it make sense to add this to standard `machine` release ?) I don't think so, but I may not completely understand the question ;) Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
