Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/7/2004 4:42 AM Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:06:37PM +0900, Rob wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the

Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Rob
Bruce Hunter wrote: I have setup a headless machine via a null modem cable. Instalation went fine. The only problem now, is connecting to the machine after the install. When I #cu -l /dev/cuaao/ I see the boot process, but it gets to the date prompt but doesn't show the login: i did install

Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial console: # echo '-h'

Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Rob
Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(. You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial

Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:06:37PM +0900, Rob wrote: Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote: Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt, which I do not understand :(.

Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

2004-05-07 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:58:43PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: I see the boot process, but it gets to the date prompt but doesn't show the login: this is mentioned in the fabulous handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html 17.6.5.4 Getting a