Installer on serial-console-only-embedded system

[Michael Sierchio]

You need to change /etc/ttys to turn off the virtual consoles and turn
on a serial terminal.
E.g.,

ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
# Virtual terminals
ttyv1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
ttyv2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
ttyv3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
ttyv4   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
ttyv5   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
ttyv6   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
ttyv7   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure
# Serial terminals
# The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc.
ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  on  secure
ttyu1   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
ttyu2   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
ttyu3   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
# Dumb console
dcons   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   off secure

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:34 AM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:
> Hello :-)
>
> With my friend Jacek we have tried to perform PXE installation of
> FreeBSD 9 on an i386 embedded system for one project. This required
> adding "-h" or "comconsole" to the /boot/loader.conf so the
> input-output is done with serial console port, not video console.
> However, after installation, on this embedded system with no video
> console, system seems to be configured to use videoconsole by
> default...
>
> Is it possible to add this nice feature to the new installer that
> would recognise if installation is done with serial-port-console and
> then setup the installed system to work with serial-port-console by
> default not the videoconsole? We could try it out on 9.2-RC2 if
> possible :-)
>
> Best regards! :-)
> Tomek
>
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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