Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Paul Saab writes: | Doug Ambrisko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Paul Saab writes: | > | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc | > | > Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts | > using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you hav

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Paul Saab
Alan Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I hate to disagree but my setup loads pxeboot from /tftpboot (as per > the tftp line in inetd.conf) and my DHCP options specify the root fs as > /pxeroot. pxeboot loads /boot/loader.rc from /pxeroot. It's confusing > I know. It also appears to load /pxe

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Alan Edmonds
I hate to disagree but my setup loads pxeboot from /tftpboot (as per the tftp line in inetd.conf) and my DHCP options specify the root fs as /pxeroot. pxeboot loads /boot/loader.rc from /pxeroot. It's confusing I know. It also appears to load /pxeboot via tftp and /boot/loader.rc via NFS. Mayb

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Jul-00 Alan Edmonds wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: >> > 1) not probe for a console >> >> Nothing probes for a console, apart from boot2 in the boot-from-disk case >> if the -P flag is found in /boot.config. > > Okay. Maybe I used the word probe incorrectly. As I understand > pxeboot (and lo

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Paul Saab
Alan Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Except if pxeboot can't read loader.rc you could be hosed. > Since pxeboot is loaded over the network, you might not > be able to mount the root fs and read /boot/loader.rc. > I was just trying to set the default case to assume serial console > like you ca

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Alan Edmonds
Mike Smith wrote: > > > Restating the question. > > > > Is there a way to force PXE to > > I think you have some very serious confusion about what things are and > what they are called, and it is making it impossible for anyone else to > understand what you're talking about. > > "PXE" is a spe

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Smith
> Restating the question. > > Is there a way to force PXE to I think you have some very serious confusion about what things are and what they are called, and it is making it impossible for anyone else to understand what you're talking about. "PXE" is a specification, and an interface complian

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Alan Edmonds
Restating the question. Is there a way to force PXE to 1) not probe for a console 2) use a serial port as the default com port I know I can put set console="comconsole" in /boot/loader.rc. Normally, this is set in the boot blocks, but we don't have these in pxeboot. Thanks, -- Alan Edmonds

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Paul Saab
Doug Ambrisko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Saab writes: > | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc > > Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts > using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you have a > BIOS that setups the bau

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Smith
> Paul Saab writes: > | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc > > Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts > using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you have a > BIOS that setups the baud rate etc. of the serial port then you w

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Paul Saab writes: | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you have a BIOS that setups the baud rate etc. of the serial port then you would be okay

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Alan Edmonds writes: | | I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about | setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports | 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports | console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at | hard coding a serial console into BT

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Paul Saab
set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc paul Alan Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about > setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports > 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports > console

PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Alan Edmonds
I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at hard coding a serial console into BTX. Normally, you put the -h opti