Re: Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-05 Thread Paul de Weerd
Attempt two ;) On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:52:19PM +1000, RW wrote: | Mounting it shows the expected directory structure and when it is | booted it announces that it is using a 2.88 floppy image and then gives | out ERR M and locks up. This 'ERR M' error message is from the first-stage system

Re: Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-05 Thread Nick Holland
RW wrote: I have a Commell LE564 which will work happily with a serial console including doing BIOS stuff. The BIOS allows use of a USB CD drive and that works too. Well, it works perfectly if you can just time it right and blindly type in the magic string to redirect the console to com0

Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-04 Thread RW
I have a Commell LE564 which will work happily with a serial console including doing BIOS stuff. The BIOS allows use of a USB CD drive and that works too. Well, it works perfectly if you can just time it right and blindly type in the magic string to redirect the console to com0 and then you can

Re: Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-04 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:52:19PM +1000, RW wrote: | So I thought it would be cool to modify the CD boot to do the console | switch that I remembered somebody describing some time back, and did | the svnd mount of the cdrom41.fs, added /etc/ and put in a boot.conf | containing set tty com0. I

Re: Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
RW wrote: I have a Commell LE564 which will work happily with a serial console including doing BIOS stuff. I then did mkhybrid with all the buttons and knobs and burned the resulting ISO to a CD. Mounting it shows the expected directory structure and when it is booted it announces that it

Re: Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-04 Thread RW
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:55:09 -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: uh, pxeboot? you can put the CD contents on your pxeboot server and there's no need to hook up a CD drive. me thinks that's how you're supposed to do it for headless machines. have had the same bad magic errors in the past when using

Re: Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
RW wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:55:09 -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: uh, pxeboot? you can put the CD contents on your pxeboot server and there's no need to hook up a CD drive. me thinks that's how you're supposed to do it for headless machines. have had the same bad magic errors in the