On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Adam McDougall <mcdou...@egr.msu.edu> wrote: > I often use the serial console on my servers through ILOM remote console > access to install FreeBSD because it lets me cut and paste commands into a > live shell from install media. Back with FreeBSD 8.x and previous, the > console worked as a dual console between the redirected VGA/keyboard console > and serial, all I had to do was drop to the loader prompt at the boot loader > menu to enter: > > set console=comconsole > set boot_serial=yes > boot > > From then on, the VGA console was ignored until I rebooted. But in 9.x > (currently trying 9.0-RC2 from the usb image), I have to interrupt an > earlier loader to use -h or -D to enable serial(dual) console support at > all. I then enter the two variables above as I usually do, then specify my > terminal type (xterm), then choose "Live CD" which prints: > Updating motd: /etc/motd is not writable, update failed. > Configuring syscons: blanktime. > Starting cron. > Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds. > > Wed Nov 23 19:03:02 UTC 2011 > > but then it prints the FreeBSD banner and spawns the login: prompt on the > VGA console instead. > > Is there something else I can set during the boot process to make this work? > I could try modifying the configuration on the usb image to suit my site > but this is more modification than I required in the past and surprisingly > different. Please let me know if I can provide more information or help in > some way. Thanks. > > If I don't hear back in a few days or so, I'll make a PR.
You'll need to change your device.hints and /etc/ttys. -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
