On 23/02/2013, at 24:36, Paul Mather <p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote: > I don't know whether all of that is needed, but, as you can see from the > various commented-out lines, it was a configuration I "arrived at" that > works. :-) > > I don't have a /boot.config on this system.
OK, that gives me hope :) > Usually, I have the VGA console take precedence. In that case, I get > messages on both the VGA console and the IPMI SOL console during the BIOS > screen, loader, and kernel boot messages but then only messages on the VGA > console during the rc.d boot phase. I have a serial console enabled in > /etc/ttys, so I get output (e.g., getty login) on the IPMI SOL when that is > eventually spawned. If I want to have the serial console take precedence, I > usually escape to the loader prompt (via ESC at the loader menu) and issue a > "set console="comconsole,vidconsole"" command. Then, the rc.d boot output > goes to the serial console and That is basically what I want - I am looking for a way to run fsck or diagnose boot issues without having to fire up the Java app and tunnelling into the network. > not the VGA console. (It would be nice to have rc.d init scripts output go > to both consoles, but I don't know whether that is possible.) Yeah that would be very nice, I will take what you have though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
