On 2012-03-20, Ulf Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote: > Trying pfsense and FreeBSD9.0 via pxeboot, I get at some point to see > the swirly on my serial terminal but nothing else, it is as if all other > text is white on white or black on black. Has anyone seen something > similar? I am not very picky about what I put on these, as soon I get > ... a NTP daemon, as I want to use these as our NTP masters for the > internal network.
This sounds like the boot loader hasn't been told to put the console on the serial port, so you don't get output after the kernel has started running. I don't know how to set this for pfsense/FreeBSD, there should be something in documentation for the boot loader. On OpenBSD you either type 'set tty com0' into the boot loader, or place that line in /etc/boot.conf on the tftp server that you pxeboot from. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
