freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 93, Issue 17

Jeremiah Wulf lannenw at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 12:23:56 PDT 2005


On Apr 8, 2005 5:00 AM, freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org
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>   1. Re: Serial console connection problem (Jonathan Chen)
>   2. Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject) (wizlayer)
>   3. Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject) (John Meing)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:38:53 +1200
> From: Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
> Subject: Re: Serial console connection problem
> To: Jani Luukkanen <jani at soundflows.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20050408103853.GA6841 at osiris.chen.org.nz>
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> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:26:02PM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Sorry for confusing explanation. The board has built in serial console
> > feature, which you can turn on from bios. This allows you to access the
> > machine through serial port no matter in what condition the machine
> > would be. (Hanging in the boot-phase or kernel dead)
> >
> > Option has been set up so that the serial console replaces one of the
> > comports. (In this case it would be replacing Com1 in the 5.3 machine)
> > 4.10 is of course configured with ordinary serial ports so that it would
> > have access to the serial terminal of the other machine.
> >
> > Might be this is irrelevant but just wondering does BSD need in that
> > case some special conf for this purpose or just needs replacing the
> > getty settings. (Previously with 4.10 configuration i managed to connect
> > through minicom)
> 
> Hmm. This is a different case altogether. I suspect that the 5.3
> kernel is intefering with your BIOS console. You may have to disble
> the kernel from recognising the port altogether so that it doesn't get
> in the way.
> 
> Cheers.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:55:31 -0400
> From: wizlayer <wizlayer at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject)
> To: John Meing <attackers at gmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <200504080655.32758.wizlayer at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote:
> > Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg
> > (without the rc.conf lines)
> >
> > command="passwd root" system
> >
> > which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested
> > with /stand/sysinstalld and it worked) but it didn't work when
> > i put it in install.cfg :((
> >
> > John Meing
> >
> [snip]
> > > Okay, but that still doesn't work for the syntax...  Going
> > > back to
> > >
> > > your original post:
> > > > command="echo sendmail_enable="NONE" >> /etc/rc.conf"
> > > > system
> > >
> > > would at best cause mismatching quote errors (which is what
> > > I'm assuming you're getting?)
> > >
> > > Mike
> 
> hmmm...  I googled this list and found the following link (which
> may wrap in email):
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031620.html
> 
> I'm thinking perhaps this function through sysinstall isn't
> completely implemented yet.... or....  I've just noticed there's
> no mention of a shell (hmmmm)...
> 
> Maybe something like:
> 
> # /stand/sysinstall command="sh passwd root" system
> 
> Even though it doesn't seem to work from the command line, I
> wonder if the problem isn't something along these lines?  Perhaps
> putting these commands into a script and then having install.cfg
> run the script instead would clear it up.
> 
> (I'm shooting in the dark here, I know...  But now I'm curious...)
> 
> Mike
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:10:34 +0700
> From: John Meing <attackers at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject)
> To: wizlayer at gmail.com, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <4f34b68f0504080410283a7d01 at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> Mike,
> 
> Thanks alot for your suggestion, I'll try to put these lines to a
> shell script and try to make install.cfg run them. I'll post results
> soon.
> 
> John Meing
> 
> On Apr 8, 2005 5:55 PM, wizlayer <wizlayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote:
> > > Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg
> > > (without the rc.conf lines)
> > >
> > > command="passwd root" system
> > >
> > > which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested
> > > with /stand/sysinstalld and it worked) but it didn't work when
> > > i put it in install.cfg :((
> > >
> > > John Meing
> > >
> > [snip]
> > > > Okay, but that still doesn't work for the syntax...  Going
> > > > back to
> > > >
> > > > your original post:
> > > > > command="echo sendmail_enable="NONE" >> /etc/rc.conf"
> > > > > system
> > > >
> > > > would at best cause mismatching quote errors (which is what
> > > > I'm assuming you're getting?)
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> >
> > hmmm...  I googled this list and found the following link (which
> > may wrap in email):
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031620.html
> >
> > I'm thinking perhaps this function through sysinstall isn't
> > completely implemented yet.... or....  I've just noticed there's
> > no mention of a shell (hmmmm)...
> >
> > Maybe something like:
> >
> > # /stand/sysinstall command="sh passwd root" system
> >
> > Even though it doesn't seem to work from the command line, I
> > wonder if the problem isn't something along these lines?  Perhaps
> > putting these commands into a script and then having install.cfg
> > run the script instead would clear it up.
> >
> > (I'm shooting in the dark here, I know...  But now I'm curious...)
> >
> > Mike
> >
> 
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