memstick serial console install is completely illegible ... am I doing something wrong ?

2013-04-29 Thread Jason Usher
I have the latest 9.1-RELEASE memstick image burned to a USB drive. I boot from that and connect to my device with a serial console. At some point, the installer asks me what terminal emulation I am using - I choose vt100. But then things go to hell ... I am not complaining that the screen

serial console issues with FreeBSD 9.0 (i386)

2012-11-25 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello While installing FreeBSD 9.0 i386 on a Soekris net6501 I ran into some problems regarding the serial console. Those problems and their workarounds are described below -- for the archives, in case someone runs into them as well. After having read section 27.6 Setting Up the Serial Console

Serial console getty broken after upgrading to 9.1-RC2

2012-10-08 Thread Ziyan Maraikar
Hello all, I had a working serial console setup on Freebsd 9.0 for remote access via my HP server's BMC serial console. I recently built and installed 9.1-RC2 on a separate dataset on this machine's ZFS pool and merged in my existing configuration from 9.0. On 9.1-RC2 I no longer get

Booting from ZFS with serial console

2012-06-11 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all. I am in desperate need of some help with ZFS (maybe GPT) and serial consoles. I use 19200 for my console speed for everything, so I recompiled the boot blocks using BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=19200 in /etc/make.conf. I then ran this to install new blocks to my two drives in the mirror pair:

Serial Console activation causes system freeze (8.2-Stable)

2012-01-31 Thread BBLister
Greetings, Ι have followed the guide about setting up the serial console: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html Ι have done this many times with no problems to other servers. For the first time I have a very strange problem in this particular server

serial console access on ZFS server

2011-11-29 Thread David Newman
I'm having difficulty gaining serial console access to an 8.2-RELEASE box running ZFS on its root partition. I would appreciate pointers to help determine if this is a FreeBSD issue, or something external like BIOS or cabling. The server is a vanilla 1U Supermicro motherboard with AMI BIOS

Re: problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Fritz Wuehler on Monday, 28 November 2011: I don't know but I do know a real VT100 won't run at 115,200 unless you drop it out of an airplane. Are you using a physical terminal or an emulator? If an emulator you often have to match up the emulator speed and parity settings etc. to the

problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-27 Thread h bagade
Hi all, I want to change serial console speed on freebsd 8.2. I've found out different way of doing so but none was successful! I've tried the following ways: 1- change /boot.config: add -S*speed *2- change /boot/loader.conf: add following lines boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES

Re: problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-27 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, So basically you need the following: 1) Set the baud rate and the com interface in BIOS (ex: com1 and baud rate 19200) 2) /boot/loader.conf: ipmi_load=YES 3) reboot 4) - use dmesg | grep uart and you will something like this: uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on

Re: problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-27 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 11/27/2011 12:07 AM, h bagade wrote: Hi all, I want to change serial console speed on freebsd 8.2. I've found out different way of doing so but none was successful! I've tried the following ways: 1- change /boot.config: add -S*speed *2- change /boot/loader.conf: add following lines

Re: problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-27 Thread Fritz Wuehler
of the above methods worked and only changing /etc/makefile had an effect on serial console speed which is not appropriate. Is there anything else should be take in to consideration in any of the ways? What am I missing? I don't know but I do know a real VT100 won't run at 115,200 unless you drop it out

Serial console with incorrect terminal set

2011-11-16 Thread James Edwards
Hi All, I have two servers currently colocated, one running FreeBSD 8.2/amd64 , and the other is a Sun Netra T1 that I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.2 on, over serial. When the system booted up, I was presented with a list of console options and I chose the first option, I believe to be

Re: Serial console with incorrect terminal set

2011-11-16 Thread J65nko
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:52 PM, James Edwards jedwa...@bsdftw.org wrote: Hi All, I have two servers currently colocated, one running FreeBSD 8.2/amd64 , and the other is a Sun Netra T1 that I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.2 on, over serial. When the system booted up, I was presented

Re: Serial console with incorrect terminal set

2011-11-16 Thread James Edwards
On Wed, November 16, 2011 14:52, J65nko wrote: You can stop ping with : $ pkill -TERM ping From the ping man page: -c count Stop after sending (and receiving) count ECHO_RESPONSE packets. If this option is not specified, ping will operate until inter-

serial console problem

2011-10-24 Thread Robin Becker
I have a collocated server which had serial console access. The server centre re-located the server and left off the serial console. The server worked fine for a few hours, but then access got slower and slower and eventually died. Could it be that the lack of a console is causing that? I'm

Re: serial console install

2011-04-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/04/2011 23:25, Paul Macdonald wrote: (the DC sees the installer over vga when they shoudn't, same ISO!!) any suggestions? It's frequently a BIOS option to redirect the console to a serial device or not. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

serial console install

2011-04-28 Thread Paul Macdonald
ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 serial stops there and doesn't get to the bsd install screen. --- on my working local install i see the additional stages of: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 /stand/sysinstall running as init on serial console

FreeBSD 8, serial console problem

2010-03-22 Thread Brian Wolman
FreeBSD 8 uses the uart system to handle serial consoles, I changed mine over and I've been running into problems since. I have serial console access during the loader and boot process, but it freezes right after boot and posting of the date: Mon Mar 22 22:18:08 EDT 2010 Well, the kernel still

Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sven Hazejager s...@hazejager.nl writes: I'm having trouble getting 7.2-p4 to run. I'm using nanoBSD, either under VMware using a virtual serial null-modem or on an Alix Soekris-like serial-only CF-based device, both show this problem: my serial console does not display kernel messages

Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Sven Hazejager
is VGA, even though I have console=comconsole AND boot.config containing -h AND sio.0.flags 0x30. Has anyone actually gotten a serial console to work with FreeBSD 7.2-release? I'm having the same problems with 7-STABLE. Sven ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: 7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-09 Thread Tim Judd
is even starting. The problem is that the console is VGA, even though I have console=comconsole AND boot.config containing -h AND sio.0.flags 0x30. Has anyone actually gotten a serial console to work with FreeBSD 7.2-release? I'm having the same problems with 7-STABLE. FWIW, I do lots

7.2-p4 serial console not showing kernel messages?

2009-11-08 Thread Sven Hazejager
All, I'm having trouble getting 7.2-p4 to run. I'm using nanoBSD, either under VMware using a virtual serial null-modem or on an Alix Soekris-like serial-only CF-based device, both show this problem: my serial console does not display kernel messages, they all go to the VGA console! I'm using

cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
If I have 2 machines, could I connect the machines to each other via serial cable, in order to be able to reach each others' console in case of out of band issues? I know how to config it, I was just wondering if it would not bite each other. -- FR

RE: cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Gary Gatten
] On Behalf Of Frederique Rijsdijk Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:06 AM To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: cross-link serial console If I have 2 machines, could I connect the machines to each other via serial cable, in order to be able to reach each others' console in case of out of band issues? I know

Re: cross-link serial console

2009-10-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Gary Gatten wrote: Ahh A Null modem cable? Or, perhaps BSD will allow you to configure the serial interface in the software - make one end a DCE type and the other by default will remain a DTE. He has to use a null-modem cable. The wires sending and receiving data are fixed, so one

Re: No serial console input in loader

2009-10-14 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have to come back to this problem. When I boot over the serial console, input works all fine until I come to the loader menu. There, input from the serial console is just ignored, I can not interrupt the autoboot and e.g. choose a different kernel. I have partitioned with GPT

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
is read properly): -Dh -S115200 Anything wrong in the above? Hyperterminal is set to 115200 bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control (if that's the correct translation to English). On the serial console, I go from the screen with the FreeBSD logo, with single-user options etc

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:04, Danny Braniss wrote: you need to set hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Regards/thanks, Thomas ___

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:10 PM 8/26/2009, Thomas Backman wrote: danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Try adding it to /boot/device.hints eg hint.uart.0.at=isa hint.uart.0.port=0x3F8 hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 hint.uart.0.irq=4

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:16, Mike Tancsa wrote: Or, if you want to use loader.conf, try hw.uart.console=io:0x3f8 ---Mike That solved it! Thanks a lot!! :) Regards, Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-24 Thread Thomas Backman
the correct translation to English). On the serial console, I go from the screen with the FreeBSD logo, with single-user options etc. (which works fine), and then nothing, until a login tty pops up (which also works fine). The main, if not only, reason I want a serial console is to be able to use

Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Thomas Backman
in the above? Hyperterminal is set to 115200 bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control (if that's the correct translation to English). On the serial console, I go from the screen with the FreeBSD logo, with single-user options etc. (which works fine), and then nothing, until

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Tim Judd
/boot.config (which is read properly): -Dh -S115200 Anything wrong in the above? Hyperterminal is set to 115200 bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control (if that's the correct translation to English). On the serial console, I go from the screen with the FreeBSD logo, with single-user

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Thomas Backman
std.115200 vt100 on secure /boot.config (which is read properly): -Dh -S115200 Anything wrong in the above? Hyperterminal is set to 115200 bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control (if that's the correct translation to English). On the serial console, I go from the screen

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-23 Thread Carl Chave
). On the serial console, I go from the screen with the FreeBSD logo, with single-user options etc. (which works fine), and then nothing, until a login tty pops up (which also works fine). The main, if not only, reason I want a serial console is to be able to use it for single user mode, DDB, and so

serial console on a machine without a serial port, but with a USB port

2009-08-09 Thread John .
I need to have access to the console on my server, so that I can do stuff like grab the output of a crash or, if it halts whilst booting up, to take remedial action. I had planned on doing this from a much older machine whose sole function is to provide that capability. This older machine will be

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:28:56 Tim Judd wrote: On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing

n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread John .
Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) thanks -- John ___ freebsd

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing just one line: -P to existing, make sure you it's bootable (mkisofs -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot) and record refer

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 15:46:11 John . wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) It's possible

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread John .
Hi, Thanks everyone, I know what to do now :D -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
? no console output either by your solution. why? Enabling a serial console on a typical install means editing 3 files. /boot/loader.conf /boot.config /etc/ttys loader.conf needs to know the COM port speed (default 9600), and what device to output the console. by default it uses what boot already use

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing just one line: -P to existing, make sure you it's

serial console, COM port not working - [FILTER] ?

2009-04-20 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
I'm setting up serial console access to our machines. One of them isn't giving a login prompt, and I noticed a difference in dmesg output: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: [FILTER] The last line I don't see on boxes where all

Re: mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-02 Thread Mel
. What confused me is why the booting problem does not appear every time I reboot the computer and the serial console does work fine if it can boot. And I will really appreciate if you can specify my problem. Thanks a lot. I'm not sure. Your controller doesn't always get an interrupt, so could

Re: mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-02 Thread Ji
without enabling serial console === Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation

mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-01 Thread Ji
Hi all, I ran into a weird problem when enabling serial console on the FreeBSD 7.0. Your help is really appreciated. I installed FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 (from the CD) on a Dell R200, and then enabled the serial console by adding the following to /boot/loader.conf hint.sio.0.flags=0x30 console

Re: mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 07:41:17 Ji wrote: Hi all, I ran into a weird problem when enabling serial console on the FreeBSD 7.0. Your help is really appreciated. I installed FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 (from the CD) on a Dell R200, and then enabled the serial console by adding the following

Re: mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-01 Thread Ji
Thank you for your reply, Mel. There must be something wrong. What confused me is why the booting problem does not appear every time I reboot the computer and the serial console does work fine if it can boot. And I will really appreciate if you can specify my problem. Thanks a lot. Jim On Mon

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-05 Thread Carl
drawback with this method is that the serial console only cuts in just before the boot menu. I suspect that if you wanted to have a serial console for every stage of the boot you would need to mess about with the ramdisk image on the CD. So creating a boot.config in the root of the CD image

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
are a little different from my original procedure, so this time I used yours. The only drawback with this method is that the serial console only cuts in just before the boot menu. I suspect that if you wanted to have a serial console for every stage of the boot you would need to mess about

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:25:21 Carl wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots

Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Carl
I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of digging on the Internet, reading the handbook, and I've gotten nowhere fast. The following process was my best hope, but it still

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of digging on the Internet, reading the handbook, and I've gotten nowhere

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Carl
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of digging on the Internet, reading the handbook

Serial Console Problems

2008-09-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
I've got DELL PowerEdge 1750 with 7.0-RELEASE-p4. I'm running the serial port to a serial console server. I thought I had the right adapter, DB-9 to RJ45, but it's being weird. When I specify, ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 on secure In the /etc/ttys file, the console doesn't

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:00 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i put -h in /boot.config FreeBSD loaders starts with serial console fine, load kernel, boots and... kernel uses VGA as console. what i do wrong? Have you checked flag setting on sio? # dmesg | grep sio.*flags sio0

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what i do wrong? Have you checked flag setting on sio? # dmesg | grep sio.*flags sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 yes. i then tried to change flags to 0x20 (force console) - still doesn't work sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap

Re: serial console - no go

2008-08-27 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:43 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: what i do wrong? Have you checked flag setting on sio? # dmesg | grep sio.*flags sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 yes. i then tried to change flags to 0x20 (force

Re: Turn off serial console on boot

2008-08-26 Thread ben
I have some servers with IPMI that allow me to have a serial console. I have setup a serial console config on my servers and it seems to work reasonably well in remote emergencies, but causes serious problems if I ever have to use the real console. It means that I can't use single user mode

serial console - no go

2008-08-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i put -h in /boot.config FreeBSD loaders starts with serial console fine, load kernel, boots and... kernel uses VGA as console. what i do wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Turn off serial console on boot

2008-08-26 Thread Chris St Denis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some servers with IPMI that allow me to have a serial console. I have setup a serial console config on my servers and it seems to work reasonably well in remote emergencies, but causes serious problems if I ever have to use the real console. It means that I

Turn off serial console on boot

2008-08-25 Thread Chris St Denis
I have some servers with IPMI that allow me to have a serial console. I have setup a serial console config on my servers and it seems to work reasonably well in remote emergencies, but causes serious problems if I ever have to use the real console. It means that I can't use single user mode

Re: No serial console input in loader

2008-07-08 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Jun 28, 2008, at 13:15 , Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I have a small router that has no video output, it only supports a serial console. I configured the serial console in /boot/ boot.config, /boot/loader.conf and /etc/ttys. It's working in the BIOS, on the boot prompt before the loader

No serial console input in loader

2008-06-28 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have a small router that has no video output, it only supports a serial console. I configured the serial console in /boot/boot.config, / boot/loader.conf and /etc/ttys. It's working in the BIOS, on the boot prompt before the loader starts, and when logging in on the getty. The only

Re: No serial console input in loader

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:15:11 +0200, Anselm Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, Hello, I have a small router that has no video output, it only supports a serial console. I configured the serial console in /boot/boot.config, / boot/loader.conf and /etc/ttys. It's working in the BIOS

Re: No serial console input in loader

2008-06-28 Thread Anselm Strauss
Coud you put here the related entries of /boot/loader.conf and /etc/ tty ? /boot/loader.conf: console=comconsole comconsole_speed=38400 /boot/boot.config: -h -S38400 /etc/ttys (disabled all ttyv*): ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.38400 vt100 on secure

Re: Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console

2008-03-05 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:13:21PM -0500, Simon Chang wrote: Hi, Not sure whether Dell hardware has any special management features, but on generic server hardware, I always make sure BIOS console redirection is enabled (gives you BIOS access), and that it's set to stop redirecting

Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console

2008-03-04 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm getting a new Dell server delivered to our corporate datacenter. There is a serial console available there. What is the process for installing FreeBSD remotely by logging in to the serial console? I'm assuming that I can get a tech in the datacenter to put a FreeBSD install disc into the CD

Re: Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console

2008-03-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:37:00AM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm getting a new Dell server delivered to our corporate datacenter. There is a serial console available there. What is the process for installing FreeBSD remotely by logging in to the serial console? rftm section 2.12.1

Re: Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console

2008-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
much better method - install via livecd, let someone start livecd, set UP IP, gateway, resolv.conf and start sshd then you do the rest On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm getting a new Dell server delivered to our corporate datacenter. There is a serial console available

Re: Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console

2008-03-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:37, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm getting a new Dell server delivered to our corporate datacenter. There is a serial console available there. What is the process for installing FreeBSD remotely by logging in to the serial console? I'm assuming that I can get a tech

Re: Installing FreeBSD remotely via serial console

2008-03-04 Thread Simon Chang
Hi, Not sure whether Dell hardware has any special management features, but on generic server hardware, I always make sure BIOS console redirection is enabled (gives you BIOS access), and that it's set to stop redirecting once the OS boots. If it is one of the newer Dells, there is a

issues with serial console output

2008-02-17 Thread Matthias Kellermann
Hi list, I'm trying to install a FreeBSD system on a remote server I can only access via a serial console with 57600 baud. There is a Linux rescue system that I use for copying a FreeBSD HDD image via dd to the harddisk. To access the FreeBSD installation via remote serial console I've done

Re: issues with serial console output

2008-02-17 Thread Bogdan Ćulibrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Kellermann wrote: | Hi list, | | I'm trying to install a FreeBSD system on a remote server I can only | access via a serial console with 57600 baud. | | There is a Linux rescue system that I use for copying a FreeBSD HDD | image via dd

Re: Trying to setup a serial console on my desktop

2008-01-30 Thread आशीष Ashish
,--[ On Sunday 20 Jan 2008, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: | Hello. [...] | loader.conf(5) says: | | comconsole_speed | | (``9600'' or the value of the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED vari- | | able when loader(8) was compiled). Sets the speed of the | | serial console

Re: Trying to setup a serial console on my desktop

2008-01-19 Thread WATANABE Kazuhiro
Hello. At Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:17:42 +0530, ? Ashish Shukla wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup serial console on my FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4, I'm facing some issues. 88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /boot.config -DP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /boot/loader.conf sound_load=YES

Re: Trying to setup a serial console on my desktop

2008-01-19 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष श ुक्ल
of the WATANABE | serial console. If the previous boot loader stage speci- WATANABE | fied that a serial console is in use then the default WATANABE | speed is determined from the current serial port speed WATANABE | setting. WATANABE If you specify

Trying to setup a serial console on my desktop

2008-01-18 Thread आशीष श ुक्ल A shish Shukla
Hi, I'm trying to setup serial console on my FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4, I'm facing some issues. 88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /boot.config -DP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /boot/loader.conf sound_load=YES# Digital sound subsystem snd_hda_load=YES # Intel High

serial console install

2006-09-18 Thread Robin Becker
Hi, my helpful supplier says If you connect to the serial console and then turn on the machine from the power cycler the machine should boot up to a syslinux boot prompt, which will let you fire up the FreeBSD installer. and when this syslinux thing boots up I see the possibility to boot

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-30 Thread Dieter
a hand-held walk-through of just what I need to do to make this work? What you need to do will vary with your system and what capabilities/bugs it has. For my system, firmware: advanced cmos setup page: turn on serial console

serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html but I'm not clear

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:39, Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Ken Stevenson
Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/01/06 Scott I. Remick said: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). Can't you just run xconsole? Mike -- Michael P

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +, Robert Slade wrote: I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log Last few times I remember looking, there was nothing logged. This lead me to believe that the lockup happened too fast for

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
be able to just restart syslogd). Interesting. I will try that, but I think I'll be running into the same problem before where the HALT occurs before anything can be written to disk, so nothing gets logged. I think I'd still like to figure out how to set up a serial console too

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:32:46 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Can't you just run xconsole? Doesn't help me if xconsole is hidden by another window at the time of the halt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole

Unable to boot to internal or serial console

2005-12-31 Thread Teo De Las Heras
add set console=comconsole After doing this on the second machine and rebooting, I am not able to get to the serial console, video console, or SSH. There are not errors on the screen, just a blinking curser after FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 How can I get back into the system? Teo

Unable to boot to internal or serial console

2005-12-31 Thread Teo De Las Heras
add set console=comconsole After doing this on the second machine and rebooting, I am not able to get to the serial console, video console, or SSH. There are not errors on the screen, just a blinking curser after FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 How can I get back into the system

sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible?

2005-12-27 Thread Elliot Crosby-McCullough
Hey guys. Basically in my situation I have a broken server in colo with no serial console. It works for the most part but write access to / is gone, and all attempts at repair are not coming about. I'd like to reinstall all but /home (has a seperate slice), however I would have to do so

RE: sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible?

2005-12-27 Thread Webster, Andrew
Subject: sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible? Hey guys. Basically in my situation I have a broken server in colo with no serial console. It works for the most part but write access to / is gone, and all attempts at repair are not coming about. I'd

Re: Serial Console Help Needed

2005-11-29 Thread Brian McCann
On 11/28/05, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/29/05, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console setup on 5.4. I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to 19200, added set console=comconsole to /boot/loader.rc, turned

Re: Serial Console Help Needed

2005-11-29 Thread Brian McCann
On 11/28/05, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/29/05, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console setup on 5.4. I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to 19200, added set console=comconsole to /boot/loader.rc, turned

Serial Console Help Needed

2005-11-28 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console setup on 5.4. I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to 19200, added set console=comconsole to /boot/loader.rc, turned on /dev/ttyd0 and ttyd1 in /etc/ttys, and added -P to /boot.config. I can see the kernel messages

Re: Serial Console Help Needed

2005-11-28 Thread Jay
On 11/29/05, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a serial console setup on 5.4. I've recompiled the boot blocks to set the speed to 19200, added set console=comconsole to /boot/loader.rc, turned on /dev/ttyd0 and ttyd1 in /etc/ttys

Serial console prob on amd64

2005-11-24 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a dual amd64 machine on which serial console is not working properly. I've configured dozens of Intel machines without a problem. I have set up boot.config and /etc/ttys. If I boot the machine some data is printed to console. Rather than paste the whole lot here, here's the last

Re: Serial console prob on amd64

2005-11-24 Thread arden
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:28:54 +0100 Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a dual amd64 machine on which serial console is not working properly. I've configured dozens of Intel machines without a problem. I have set up boot.config and /etc/ttys. If I boot the machine some data

Re: Serial console prob on amd64

2005-11-24 Thread Freminlins
Hello Arden, On 11/24/05, arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has this ever worked? If its a new box could be a hardware prob could try a loop-back test if you have the wrap plugs Yes, on Solaris 10 before I wiped it today. I just can't see what I am doing wrong. During the boot up sequence I can

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