You should also review the FreeBSD handbook. There was a section on serial consoles. There may be new steps for version 9 that I haven't encountered as I'm sticking with 8.x for a bit. And you can double check the ones I did recall.
You could also check the logs on your PXE and TFTP server(s) to see if all the expected files were requested and transferred successfully. -Jed On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:16 AM, Igalson Jacek - Korpo TP <jacek.igal...@orange.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > Thank you for your suggestions concerning comconsole and speed. > I set baudrate 9600 consitently in Soekris and server according to > loppefaaret advice on this mailinglist. > I also set boot_serial="-h" according to hint by Jed Clear. > > The last status of my booting is: > > boot f0 > > NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03 > > Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation > All rights reserved. > > Pre-boot eXecution Environment PXE-2.0 (build 082) > Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation > > > CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 CF D8 F8. > DHCP.|CLIENT IP: 192.168.1.45 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.1.10 > GATEWAY IP: 192.168.1.10 > TFTP. TFTP.\|PXE Loader 1.00 > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > C o n s o l e s : i n t e r n a l v i d e o / k e y b o a r d B I O > S d r i v e C : > i s d i s k 0 P X E v e r s i o n 2 . 1 , r e a l m o d e e n t > r y p o i n t > @ 9 e 6 4 : 0 0 f 6 B I O S 6 3 9 k B / 1 3 0 0 4 8 k B a v a i l a b l > e m e m o r y > F r e e B S D / x 8 6 b o o t s t r a p l o a d e r , R e v i s i o n > 1 . 1 > ( r o o t @ o b r i a n . c s e . b u f f a l o . e d u , T u e J a n > 3 0 6 : 4 0 : 0 1 > U T C 2 0 1 2 ) p x e _ o p e n : s e r v e r a d d r : 1 9 2 . 1 6 > 8 . 1 . 1 0 > p x e _ o p e n : s e r v e r p a t h : / u s r / p u b l i c / f r e e > b s d 9 0 / > p x e _ o p e n : g a t e w a y i p : 1 9 2 . 1 6 8 . 1 . 1 0 | / > - \ | / > > end process hangs. > > My concern is about the message: "Consoles: video/keyboard". Is it OK? > > Last message is from bootstrap loader: "pxe_open:gateway ip: 192.168.1.10" > 192.168.1.10 is my file server (TFTP and NFS server) > Characters | / - \ | / suggest that something is loaded to Soekris, > but I may not see it. > > Could someone interpret the messages and explain what is the stage of > installation? > > Regards, > Jacek > > -----Wiadomość oryginalna----- > Od: Christopher Hilton [mailto:ch...@vindaloo.com] > Wysłano: 6 sierpnia 2013 17:42 > Do: Igalson Jacek - Korpo TP > DW: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > Temat: Re: [Soekris] help in booting FreeBSD 9 > > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Igalson Jacek - Korpo TP > <jacek.igal...@orange.com> wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I am new to the Soekris. I try to install FreeBSD on Soekris 4801-48 >> with CF memory (8GB). I followed excellent guide for PXE booting >> FreeBSD 9.x: >> http://freebsd.so14k.com/freebsd9_pxe.shtml >> >> To communicate with Soekris I use terminal Minicom (19200baud and 8N1) >> on PC with FreeBSD 9.0. >> >> I got the following output on terminal: >> >>> boot f0 > > Looks like you are getting caught out by a couple of issues with booting > FreeBSD on a soekris. > > 1. The FreeBSD pxeboot infrastructure assumes you are booting onto a > machine with a VGA card and keyboard. Once the kernel loads it transfers over > to the syscons driver and you can't see the output anymore > > 2. The Soekris serial port defaults to 19200, 8n1 and the FreeBSD serial > console assumes 9600, 8n1. > > > In some of your instructions you'll find a section that has you writing > modifying the file '/boot/loader.conf' to have the line: > > console="comconsole" > > in it. That specifies that the kernel should use the serial port as a > console. With just that you should expect to see the kernel boot and then the > output will turn to hash because the serial speed is wrong. At this point you > could drop out of minicom and restart it with a speed of 9600 baud. > Alternatively you can add the line: > > comconsole_speed="19200" > > That will keep the console speed at the default for the soekris. There are > lots of instructions for pxebooting a soekris into FreeBSD 7, 8, and 9 on the > net and there are differences in all of them because the different versions > of FreeBSD have had various hangups. > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech