On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 06:15:49PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote:
> Maybe a stupid question, but is it possible to have a i386 machine
> configured with FDE to automatically direct to serial console BEFORE the
> passphrase prompt?
> 
> The steps below require the machine to have an attached keyboard
> and monitor initially.
> 
> If I hit Enter at the passphrase prompt, the boot prompt will
> appear and let me switch to serial console:
> 
> > set tty com0
> 
> From the serial console I can the type:
> 
> > boot sr0a:/bsd
> 
> which gives me the passphrase prompt again on the console machine.
> 
> It would be really nice to be able to boot a headless FDE. Am I missing
> something? Is this design by intention?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Erling
> 

There's always boot.conf(5), into which you can put 'set tty com0' last
I checked.

.... Ken

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