Re: Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-23 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:36:25PM +1000, Joel Sing wrote: On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 01:16:44PM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 06:15:49PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: Maybe a stupid question, but is it possible to

Re: Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-23 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:49:21AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: What about installboot to have an option telling it to switch to serial by default (still keeping possibility to override funcionality with /etc/boot.conf)? This would save us from kung-fu with tiny 'a' partition holding /etc/boot.conf...

Re: Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-22 Thread Joel Sing
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 01:16:44PM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: 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

Re: Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-22 Thread Jiri B
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:36:25PM +1000, Joel Sing wrote: Otherwise you could use a modified boot(8), which defaulted to serial - see constab in sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/conf.c for example. What about installboot to have an option telling it to switch to serial by default (still keeping

Re: Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-22 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:49:21AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:36:25PM +1000, Joel Sing wrote: Otherwise you could use a modified boot(8), which defaulted to serial - see constab in sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/conf.c for example. What about installboot to have an option

Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-19 Thread Erling Westenvik
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

Re: Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-19 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
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

Re: Automatically direct to serial console BEFORE passphrase prompt on FDE (i386)

2013-07-19 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 01:16:44PM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: 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