-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hej Stuart,
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/08/30 16:10, Marian Hettwer wrote: > >> >>Did that. And also "set image bsd.rd" and "boot bsd.rd", as I can't see >>anything at this point of my installation if I disabled the console >>redirection after boot. > > > ah, this is pre-install then? > pre-install? Well, consider it a machine with a brand new hard disk with nothing one it what so ever :) > are you sure boot.conf is being loaded from the tftp server? It is... > (I'm probably stating the obvious here, but it should be in > /tftpboot/etc/boot.conf not in /tftpboot/boot.conf, and of > course needs to be readable by the tftp server) Of course it is $TFTPROOT/etc/boot.conf (in my case TFTPBOOT is /boot/fai) > > you only need "set image", not "boot", it should just timeout > after 5 seconds and load whatever image is set. Okay... so my machine is booting 5 seconds earlier ;) As I can't access the bootloader to type in commands anyway, I'd rather force him too boot bsd.rd than wait 5 seconds, seeing nothing :( > > >>I wouldn't consider disabled the console redirection altogether, 'cause >>then you wouldn't have a chance to get into the BIOS. And you do want to >>get into the BIOS. > > > well, depends where you expect to have a problem... > if it's a choice of only one or the other, I'd rather have > OS than BIOS, but BIOS is nice to have too. > Well, if I want to check within the BIOS to play around with Console Redirection I need my BIOS output redirected to serial... so BIOS is not just a nice to have. Think further: SCSI controllers which you can access just after POST, but before OS... I'm still wondering, why OpenBSD complains about com0 and linux doesn't if console redirection after BOOT is enabled. hm hm hm... not 100% satisfying :-/ hopefully I can find enough arguments pro OpenBSD (in our company), as we are using Debian Linux only and I'd like to force alternatives (OpenBSD) :) ./Marian PS.: And since we are using FAI to automatically setup our servers, Debian already has a huge advantage. FAI is, to be honest, a beautiful piece of software (shell scripts) to do Fully Automated Installations. Unluckily it only supports Debian Linux... iD8DBQFE9ay/gAq87Uq5FMsRAmh0AJwOK+WPhwm2OsL+R1QFnA8PQx69FACgjIXW Tbl7V3XsE0iiH6e8B+bibr8= =ky0B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
