bin/58951: Some problems with 4.9-RELEASE installation using comconsole

[Doug White]

Stripping cc: list down to -stable only. Don't crosspost lists, please.

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Eugene Grosbein wrote:

> Is there anyone interested in fixing 4.x-RELEASE serial console
> installation?

Serial console installation works fine, tehnically speaking. :)

Your complaint has two parts:

1. -P doesn't work on your system.  This doesn't suprise me; may BIOSen
will say a keyboard is there when it is not. Its possible this is the case
for you, which is something that FreeBSD can't fix.  You should use the -h
option in this instance, which forces serial console regardless.

2.  Sysinstall does not configure the system for serial console if it was
installed from one. A reasonable feature request, but certainly not
something that can be done quickly.  You can do this manually by starting
the Fixit shell and running

echo "-h" > /dist/boot.config
vi /dist/etc/ttys  (enable ttyd0 console)

(untested, but you get the idea hopefully)

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