Re: Question related to FreeBSD Serial Console...
On 01-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Scott Long said : Scott M. Likens wrote: I have a question related to FreeBSD Serial console, I am aware you can use -Dh for both internal and serial, but is it possible to see the 'kernel' boot messages sent on both the serial and the console? It was a question that was asked to me by a client, and after researching it more, it seems that it's not possible. Am i wrong? or did I miss an option that's not documented? Sincerely, Scott M. Likens I'm a little confused by your request, but maybe adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf will get what you want? console=comconsole There is also a way to get the console directed to both the video and serial at the same time, but I've forgotten the magic and can't find it at the moment. Heh magic is the right word ;) According to what I have found it is supposed to be: console=vidconsole To make it still choose internal console even if it does not find a keyboard present at boot time. So you can walk up later and connect a keyboard and have it work. Everytime I asked on the lists I got.. Oh go look here for the answer. Which I had.. to which I got, oh well the answers in there.. No one ever was able to say DO THIS. Let alone anyone saying do this and have it work :( If you find the Magic please do let me know :) Nicole Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by FreeBSD - -- Daemons will now be known as spiritual guides -Politically Correct UNIX Page Witchcraft is in essence the worship of the powers of this world, beautiful and terrible, but all in a circle under the turning sky that is the One. -C.A. Burland, Echoes of Magic Connecting with energy is something humans have to be open to and talking about and expecting, otherwise the whole human race can go back to pretending that life is about power over others and exploiting the planet. If we go back to doing this, then we won't survive. -James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question related to FreeBSD Serial Console...
*SIGH* No what I want is NO serial console. DO NOT FOR ANY REASON turn off/not resp ond to the keyboard port Nicole On 01-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Scott Long said : Aaron Wohl wrote: My notes on getting a serial console at 115200 -must be com1 -com1 must be at port 0x3F8 irq 4 -in bios set the port and irq as above -in bios set serial redirection to com1 -in bios set baud rate 115200 -in bios set RTS/CTS flow control -edit (or create) /etc/make.conf to add these lines: BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT= 0x3F8 BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED= 115200 -cd /sys/boot -make clean -make -make install -fdisk -B No im not kidding. Part of the boot knowing baud rate loader lives in the main disk boot block. -cd /boot -edit loader.conf -add a line: console=comconsole -edit /boot.config make it read (with a return after it): -Dh (the above is minus D h return, thats 4 characters) -cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf -edit PASODOBLE (or whatever your kernconf is called) -add: options CONSPEED=115200 # Console Redirection -cd /usr/src -make buildkernel KERNCONF=PASODOBLE -make installkernel KERNCONF=PASODOBLE -reboot -pray At one time I was working on patches to the loader to make the console speed configurable. At the time, at least, I didn't see any evidence that the settings were stored in the boot0 block, but maybe I was wrong. In any case, finishing this up is on my TODO list. Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by FreeBSD - -- Daemons will now be known as spiritual guides -Politically Correct UNIX Page Witchcraft is in essence the worship of the powers of this world, beautiful and terrible, but all in a circle under the turning sky that is the One. -C.A. Burland, Echoes of Magic Connecting with energy is something humans have to be open to and talking about and expecting, otherwise the whole human race can go back to pretending that life is about power over others and exploiting the planet. If we go back to doing this, then we won't survive. -James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2
On 02-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Doug Barton said : On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: It just drives me crazy when important things get broken and people act like.. What the big deal. I don't need it why should you? You're certainly free to draw that conclusion, however you'd be mistaken. There are times when adding new features means that things change. That's life in a volunteer project. If this isn't to your liking, feel free to move on, or get to work restoring functionality that you think is important. Either way, you need to dial down the rhetoric quite a bit if you expect people to help you. Sorry I didn't mean to be so testy I guess would discribe it. It's an old issue for me. Every so often I try asking for help with it, and its usually the response I get :( So you are correct. I am infolving old feelings etc when I shoudl not be. Sorry. I still have not solved the going to comsonsole mode if there is no keyboard detected crap, new feature. Yea great for those who could benifit from it.. But I have YET to have one person be able to show me how to STOP it from doing that. Remove the 0x01 flag from the atkbd0 line in your kernel config. I will give that a shot. Thats certainly different than abyone else has suggested. In my 5.1 system I see this in my .hints file. So I assume I edit it there or do I treat it like a defaults file and import and change in in my config file? Thanks for the assist ! Nicole -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by FreeBSD - -- Daemons will now be known as spiritual guides -Politically Correct UNIX Page ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO
Is anyone going to be fixing the sysinstall problem of not being able to re-slice a drive? For those who are not technical whizes this IS a big problem. We do still care about them right? Nicole |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by FreeBSD - -- Daemons will now be known as spiritual guides -Politically Correct UNIX Page ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO
So are you saying it Will work in single user mode perhaps? (drives in use) or are you saying gee we have this nice new version that if you need to modify any disk slice you did after an install your screwed into going back to caveman tools (which I admit I have NO IDEA how to use and I bet many others don't as well.) I have been using FreeBSD since 1997 and have never HAD to use anything else. Way to win over those Linux users. Nicole On 01-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Poul-Henning Kamp said : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicole writes: Is anyone going to be fixing the sysinstall problem of not being able to re-slice a drive? For those who are not technical whizes this IS a big problem. We do still care about them right? If you are talking about using sysinstall to modify drives in use, then the answer is probably no. For that job you want to use the correct tools: fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) (tacitly assuming i386 here). If you are talking about a problem during initial install of FreeBSD you need to provide more details about it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by FreeBSD - -- Daemons will now be known as spiritual guides -Politically Correct UNIX Page Witchcraft is in essence the worship of the powers of this world, beautiful and terrible, but all in a circle under the turning sky that is the One. -C.A. Burland, Echoes of Magic Connecting with energy is something humans have to be open to and talking about and expecting, otherwise the whole human race can go back to pretending that life is about power over others and exploiting the planet. If we go back to doing this, then we won't survive. -James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO
On 01-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Marc G. Fournier said : On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: So are you saying it Will work in single user mode perhaps? (drives in use) or are you saying gee we have this nice new version that if you need to modify any disk slice you did after an install your screwed into going back to caveman tools (which I admit I have NO IDEA how to use and I bet many others don't as well.) Ummm ... if you are talking about something that I just went through, why can't you just boot up off the floppies and do the reconfig from there? Well Server not even in same city as I am would be a start. I thought detrimeatures were more a MS thing. You didn't really NEED that feature did you.. there is a way around it, but you need our $$ training course then. You want to compete with Linux and Solaris who has all the nice friendly features and now its ok to eliminate them and make someones job require on-site visits and downbooting to floppies? Hellooo?? Nicole |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by FreeBSD - -- Daemons will now be known as spiritual guides -Politically Correct UNIX Page Witchcraft is in essence the worship of the powers of this world, beautiful and terrible, but all in a circle under the turning sky that is the One. -C.A. Burland, Echoes of Magic Connecting with energy is something humans have to be open to and talking about and expecting, otherwise the whole human race can go back to pretending that life is about power over others and exploiting the planet. If we go back to doing this, then we won't survive. -James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO -2
BTW - I do thank you Marc for your advice. I know you were trying to assist. It just drives me crazy when important things get broken and people act like.. What the big deal. I don't need it why should you? I still have not solved the going to comsonsole mode if there is no keyboard detected crap, new feature. Yea great for those who could benifit from it.. But I have YET to have one person be able to show me how to STOP it from doing that. Why??? gosh why?? Becouse I don't want serial console and I don't have a keyboard on every server. So if I walk into the datacenter and try to access a server that has been rebooted.. I'm screwed! I have to ssh from some other server that has not been rebooted and if I NEED console.. then I have to reb oot the server. That detrimeature still has me pissed and the people I do work for scratching their head wanting to know why I install such a broken OS. They don't know and can't directly see the good things... managers and clients can only see it when you have to strugle to do something that should not be so obtuse. Nicole On 01-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Marc G. Fournier said : On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote: So are you saying it Will work in single user mode perhaps? (drives in use) or are you saying gee we have this nice new version that if you need to modify any disk slice you did after an install your screwed into going back to caveman tools (which I admit I have NO IDEA how to use and I bet many others don't as well.) Ummm ... if you are talking about something that I just went through, why can't you just boot up off the floppies and do the reconfig from there? |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by FreeBSD - -- Daemons will now be known as spiritual guides -Politically Correct UNIX Page Witchcraft is in essence the worship of the powers of this world, beautiful and terrible, but all in a circle under the turning sky that is the One. -C.A. Burland, Echoes of Magic Connecting with energy is something humans have to be open to and talking about and expecting, otherwise the whole human race can go back to pretending that life is about power over others and exploiting the planet. If we go back to doing this, then we won't survive. -James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
