On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Rick van der Zwet<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/17 Tom Huppi <[email protected]> >> I seem to be being effected by the issue mentioned in this thread: >> >> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2008-June/014566.html > ... >> * Does anyone have more information on this (purported) bug? >> (confirmations of it's existence, loader patch details, etc?)
> man 5 loader.conf, man 8 boot & man 5 boot.config, shows how to force > using serial output > # echo 'console="comconsole"' >> /boot/loader.conf > # echo '-h' >> /boot.config Yes, I had performed this operation on earlier occasions and forgot in this one which explains why hit the problem now...and that it had little to do with the BIOS version. I was (and remain) a bit unclear on how the video vs. com driver code works, but suffice it to say that performing the above operations solves all of my issues, and I can attain and operate in single user mode via a terminal program with the generic FreeBSD 7.2 kernel (which I am re-building now.) For completeness, I should mention that I have also made 'ttyd0' -> 'on' in /etc/ttys, but I am unable to state that this is or is not necessary to log in in single user from a serial terminal. With my primitive method of getting a Soekris going (by using a machine with video), I already need to modify the /etc/fstab and /etc/rc.conf, so it is just a matter of remembering to do so with the /boot/loader.conf as well. > FYI: De hints of > http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html provided > me a 'useable pxeboot loader (serial output w/o fancy stuff) > # cd /usr/src/sys/boot > # make clean > # make BOOT_PXELDR_ALWAYS_SERIAL=1 > # cp /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/pxeboot /tftpboot/pxeboot In this case I'm not using pxe. In fact if I do end up setting up a pxe framework, this box may end up being the server as my intention is for it to live alone on a battery backup to survive reasonable power outages. Or do you mean that that particular build option will effect the loader generally? I guess I could/should try to look at the code to answer that question I suppose...or google around some more. Thanks, - Tom > /Rick > -- > http://rickvanderzwet.nl > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
