>Number: 188549 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Improve installation on serial console >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 13 10:40:00 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Anselm Strauss >Release: 10.0-RELEASE-p1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD heman 10.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Tue Apr 8 06:45:06 UTC 2014 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: I have a PC Engines APU platform that has no video console but only a serial one. Although there is a brief documentation in the handbook on how to get the installation image working on the serial console (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-advanced.html) a lot of things are missing or troublesome to get a properly working system manageable over the serial console only:
- Installation images have to be modified by hand to get serial console support - Serial console is not enabled in the installed system, making it unusable for me - Booting the installation image again and entering the rescue shell gives me no easy way to mount the installed system if it is on ZFS. Importing/exporting the pool is not very intuitive. - Enabling SSHD during installation is an option. Later you can login over network and fix the serial console. But this relies on configuring a non-root user during installation and giving him the wheel group, otherwise you can not become root on the installed system over SSH. >How-To-Repeat: - Install fresh system on hardware with serial console support, put root on ZFS and enable SSHD - Boot into the installed system, check serial console login - Reboot to rescue shell, try configuring serial console - Try logging in via SSHD, becoming root and configuring serial console >Fix: - Provide pre-built installation images with serial console support - Provide option in installer to enable serial console on installed system - Provide documentation on how to fix a system on ZFS with the rescue shell - Provide option/documentation on how to configure user(s) to be able to fix installed system via SSH >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
