Headless System via serial port?

[Minnesota Slinky]

Is that all you did to get it working?  It goes through the boot process
just fine over the terminal, but kernel hands the login back over to
vidconsole again right away.  I even tried changing the -P to a -Dh,
still nothing.  Same effect.

Also, when I try to boot to the serial console, ntpdate and sendmail
don't want to load.  Very frustrating.

TIA for your help.

Eric F Crist
President
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
(612) 998-3588



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Schoolcraft
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:33 PM
To: Minnesota Slinky
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Headless System via serial port?


At Mon, 15 Dec 2003 it looks like Minnesota Slinky composed:

> Hello all.
>
> Perhaps there are some differences in the 5.x series for serial port
> options that I'm not aware of.  I plugged in a null-modem cable, and
> opened HyperTerminal on my laptop.  I added a boot.config file in my
> root directory on the freebsd system with the one line: -P

I did that same one-liner and it worked first time, real good stuff.

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