In the last episode (Feb 01), Patrick Mahan said:
> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Macdonald
> > I'm trying to get the dell bmc +sol serial thing working, kin dof
> > getting there, but noticed this inconsistency in the handbook:
> >
> > Is it boot.conf or boot.config?
> >
> > Create boot.config in the root directory of the a partition on the boot
> > drive.
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html#SERIALCONSOLE-HOWTO
> >
> > 7.2 Create the /boot.conf file
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/freebsd.html
>
> Here on my HP Proliant 350's I use -
>
> /boot.conf
>
> This is with FreeBSD 8.0.
I don't see anything in /usr/src/sys/boot that reads a "/boot.conf". boot2
reads "/boot.config", and the loader will read "/boot/boot.conf" but that
path is deprecated.
I have -D in /boot.config on my SOL-enabled Dell 1950, which allows for both
serial and keyboard input during the boot process.
--
Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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