Aziz KEZZOU wrote:
Aziz KEZZOU wrote:
Hi all, I am running freebsd 5.3 under qemu (a fast IA32 emulator). My host system is linux. Everything works fine, but I want to get rid of this small non-scrollable window, not practical when gcc says I made many many errors :-)...
you can scroll it after hittong tthe "scroll lock" key
Instead I want to get a console. In qemu's documentation it says : ====================================================================== `-nographic' Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this option, you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU is a simple command line application. The emulated serial port is redirected on the console. Therefore, you can still use QEMU to debug a Linux kernel with a serial console. ======================================================================
So basically what I need is, some how, to tell the freebsd kernel to forward its output/input to a serial port. In linux this is done by supplying the parameter "console=ttyS0". Is there something equivalent in FreeBSD ?
you have 2 apportunities to switch to serail console during boot..
once, before the big printout of stuff you have a single cursor sitting on teh screen for a few (5?) seconds
hitting "-h" there will switch to serial..
also
at teh 10 second countdown, hit space to get to teh prompt and type 'set console="comconsole"' followed by "boot"
in /boot/loader.conf add:
console="comconsole"
that should do it..
Thank you guys, that seems easy to do...but I don't have access to /etc/boot.conf : all I have is a disk image generated by bximage, which I can't mount !!
The pb is that with my new install the SDL window doesn't work any more : qemu says "Could not initialize SDL - exit". I did "xhost +" but didn't change any thing ?! Anyway I am not spending any more time to get the SDL window which I don't really need :-)
So basically what I want to do now is mount the freeBSD image in a
loopback and modify the boot.conf file directly. Anyone knows how to
do this under linux (2.6 if relevant) ? BSD seems to have a "weird"
way of organizing the disk. Which file system shoud I support ?
I don't know linux... sorry
Thanks,
Aziz
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