On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 06:15:49PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: > Maybe a stupid question, but is it possible to have a i386 machine > configured with FDE to automatically direct to serial console BEFORE the > passphrase prompt? > > The steps below require the machine to have an attached keyboard > and monitor initially. > > If I hit Enter at the passphrase prompt, the boot prompt will > appear and let me switch to serial console: > > > set tty com0 > > From the serial console I can the type: > > > boot sr0a:/bsd > > which gives me the passphrase prompt again on the console machine. > > It would be really nice to be able to boot a headless FDE. Am I missing > something? Is this design by intention? > > Cheers, > > Erling >
There's always boot.conf(5), into which you can put 'set tty com0' last I checked. .... Ken
