On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Jan Hoevers wrote: > Graham Menhennitt wrote on 1-3-2008 7:56: > > Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> Greetings again. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801 with > >> no luck. After the (unreadable over serial) boot prompt, during the > >> 10-second countdown, I hit return. The cursor goes almost to the left > >> end of the screen and stops. It doesn't respond to typing. > >> Eventually, the system reboots. > > I had no problem installing a pre-release version of 7.0 a few months ago. > > Why is the serial output unreadable? The Soekris BIOS talks at 9600 baud > > and FreeBSD defaults to 19200 so you might need to change baud rates in mid > > boot. I also needed to disable DMA as a few recent messages have mentioned. > > But it doesn't sound like you're even getting that far. What are you > > installing from and to? > > It's the other way round actually. Soekris bios defaults to 19200 baud > and FreeBSD to 9600. > An easy solution is to set the bios to 9600, no need for acrobatics like > changing baud rate in mid boot.
Along the same lines, you need to tell FreeBSD to use a serial console. Otherwise it assumes you have a graphics adapter and keyboard attached. I forget off the top of my head the incantation needed, but it's in the Handbook. -Jed _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
