Connecting to a Headless machine, after install

[Stijn Hoop]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:06:37PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> > > Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the
> > > boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt,
> > > which I do not understand :(.
> >
> > You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial console:
> >
> > # echo '-h' > /boot.config
> 
> Ah, thanks. I don't have a /boot.config yet. Are you sure this file goes
> in the top-root directory? Or in /boot/... ?

Yes, top-root /. Check the handbook, section 17.6:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

> You made me research a little more on this. I do have a file 
> /boot/loader.conf.
> How about having in here the line
> 
>   console="comconsole"
> 
> (to divert it from the default: console="vidconsole") ?
> 
> Or will that not do the same?

Having -h in /boot.config will also allow the boot blocks to output to
your serial console. I suspect console="comconsole" would help the loader
+ kernel. It certainly couldn't hurt I guess :)

--Stijn

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