amd64 6-release cd install, no serial console joy
Michael VInce
mv at roq.com
Mon Nov 7 22:10:04 PST 2005
I am having similar problems on a Dell 2850 using 6.0R AMD64, but I
believe its not something to do with my hardware although I don't have
any other AMD64/EMT64 server to test on.
I don't think I have actually done a ISO install via serial console on
6.0-Release but I think I did on beta versions and it did work.
I have been trying to do a PXE install and watching it all via serial
console and it works fine as long as I dont use 6.0-Release files. Using
a 6.0beta with PXE is working it fully boots the kernel and brings up
sysinstall my only problem now is that when it tries to do a FTP install
it goes for a 6.0beta5 directory which doesn't exist. When I try to use
a 6.0-Release I can get it to boot loader and then get it to load the
kernel but after that it disappears don't get any boot messages at all.
Mike
Jan Isley wrote:
>Trying to install amd64 6.0 release on some Dells, PE850 and PE2850.
>BIOS all setup same as what works just fine with 5.4 (both i386 and
>amd64 cds). boot -h appears to work until it gets to the loader and
>the console output goes to video. No keyboards or monitors plugged
>in, just a serial console server. Have tried variations on serial
>redirect in the BIOS but nothing seems to work.
>
>Anyone else have success or no with serial console redirect on amd64 6.0 cd?
>
>regards,
>-Jan
>
>
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