docs/95408: install over serial console does not work as documented

[Harti Brandt]

The following reply was made to PR docs/95408; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt at dlr.de>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-doc at freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/95408: install over serial console does not work as documented
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:11:10 +0200 (CEST)

 On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, John Baldwin wrote:
 
 JB>On Thursday 06 April 2006 08:29, Harti Brandt wrote:
 JB>> 
 JB>> >Number:         95408
 JB>> >Category:       docs
 JB>> >Synopsis:       install over serial console does not work as documented
 JB>> >Confidential:   no
 JB>> >Severity:       serious
 JB>> >Priority:       low
 JB>> >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
 JB>> >State:          open
 JB>> >Quarter:        
 JB>> >Keywords:       
 JB>> >Date-Required:
 JB>> >Class:          doc-bug
 JB>> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 JB>> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 06 12:30:20 GMT 2006
 JB>> >Closed-Date:
 JB>> >Last-Modified:
 JB>> >Originator:     Harti Brandt
 JB>> >Release:        6.1-beta4
 JB>> >Organization:
 JB>> DLR
 JB>> >Environment:
 JB>> >Description:
 JB>> The installation document describes a procedure to install on i386 over a 
 JB>> serial console. It recommends to either unplug the keyboard or to interrupt the boot and boot with boot -h.
 JB>> 
 JB>> Boot -h turns out not to work. While all the kernel messages from the probing
 JB>> appear on both the normal console and the serial one, after mounting the root
 JB>> file system the system switches entirely to the normal console.
 JB>> 
 JB>> Instead the following procedure will do it (but require at least a keyboard on the machine in question):
 JB>> 
 JB>> - interrupt the boot in the boot menu by pressing 6
 JB>> - enter the following lines:
 JB>> 
 JB>> set boot_multicons="YES"
 JB>> set boot_serial="YES"
 JB>> set console="comconsole"
 JB>> boot
 JB>
 JB>Are you doing 'boot -h' at the loader prompt?  I think all you need to do is
 JB>break into the loader and do:
 JB>
 JB>set console="comconsole vidconsole"
 
 As I said I did what the documentation says: press 6 when the menu appears 
 and then say boot -h. This should be the load prompt, I think?
 
 If one is supposed to use the 'set console' instead of boot -h we should 
 just fix the documentation.
 
 harti
 
 JB>instead.