Re: Headless System via serial port?

2003-12-16 Thread Vivek Khera
> "MS" == Minnesota Slinky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> terminal. Everything loaded fine, until the login prompt. Last thing I MS> saw was the current time and date on hyperterm. On the monitor was the MS> login screen. I couldn't even log in via ssh. If I boot with a MS> keyboard/mous

RE: Headless System via serial port?

2003-12-16 Thread Minnesota Slinky
] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:44 AM To: Minnesota Slinky Cc: 'Bill Schoolcraft'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Headless System via serial port? On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:00:14AM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote: > Is that all you did to get it working? It goes through the b

Re: Headless System via serial port?

2003-12-16 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:00:14AM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote: > Is that all you did to get it working? It goes through the boot process > just fine over the terminal, but kernel hands the login back over to > vidconsole again right away. I even tried changing the -P to a -Dh, > still nothing.

RE: Headless System via serial port?

2003-12-15 Thread Minnesota Slinky
PM To: Minnesota Slinky Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Headless System via serial port? At Mon, 15 Dec 2003 it looks like Minnesota Slinky composed: > Hello all. > > Perhaps there are some differences in the 5.x series for serial port > options that I'm not aware of. I plugged in a

RE: Headless System via serial port?

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 15 Dec 2003 it looks like Minnesota Slinky composed: > Hello all. > > Perhaps there are some differences in the 5.x series for serial port > options that I'm not aware of. I plugged in a null-modem cable, and > opened HyperTerminal on my laptop. I added a boot.config file in my > root di

RE: Headless System via serial port?

2003-12-15 Thread Minnesota Slinky
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric F Crist Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 6:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Headless System via serial port? Hey all, I tried compiling the RELENG_5_2 set of sources last night. It failed. Now, I can't su to root to update to the

Headless System via serial port?

2003-12-15 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey all, I tried compiling the RELENG_5_2 set of sources last night. It failed. Now, I can't su to root to update to the 5.1 sources and I have to either get my big-ass monitor out of the back room, or get this thing setup to work over a serial console for these emergencies. Can someone tell me