Stuart, this is a good point. I did some research and it appears this is the case. I found this document very useful:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html Too bad I found about it after installing it the hard way :( I might give it a try just for the kicks. Thanks, Ovidiu On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Method 1: PXE install >> >> I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine >> that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the >> pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the >> file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the >> boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the >> pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after: >> >> Building the boot loader arguments >> Relocating the loader and the BTX >> Starting the BTX loader >> >> It looks like the next load phase never happens. > > I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well, > but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using > the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this. > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
