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 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.
Of course, but not on an fully encrypted disk where root, and hence /etc/boot.conf, won't get available until the passphrase is entered. Since it is possible to exit the passphrase prompt, enter "set tty com0" at the boot(8) prompt and then go back to the passphrase prompt again from serial console, it must be possible to compile this functionality into boot(8)? (I'm really way out of my league here..) Erling
