SUCCESS! was: Re: installing from CD

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:54:33AM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote:
> If you get your box up, try logging into it with ssh. I was running
> 6-STABLE and for some reason I too could not get the serial console to
> display the login prompt. However, ssh login worked fine for me.

success!!

Many thanks to all list participants!

I got into the newly installed system via ssh.

# uname -srm
FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200906 ia64
#


# df -h
Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0p2    496M     35M    421M     8%    /
devfs         1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/da0p1    256M    156M    100M    61%    /efi
/dev/da0p5    496M     12K    456M     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0p6     11G    236M     10G     2%    /usr
/dev/da0p4    1.9G    228K    1.8G     0%    /var
#

Note the EFI files take up 156 MB, whereas the EFI partition created
by default by the installation program was only 100 MB. This is
probably a reason for having loader.efi of zero size.
So, it seems, the installation program needs to be updated to reflect this.

I'm still puzzled by the inability to login via MP LAN. The login prompt
just doesn't appear. I've in /etc/ttys:

# Serial terminals. The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login,
# fingerd etc.
ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   cons25  on  secure
ttyu1   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
ttyu2   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
ttyu3   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure

Is that what I should have?


many thanks
anton

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