Christian Weisgerber: > > > I vaguely remember that at some point there was a change that > > > requires a new boot(8), otherwise a serial console won't be set > > > correctly with a new kernel. > > > > hmmm ... would this affect both pxe and locally booting bsd.rd? > > It affects both pxeboot(8) and boot(8) on disk. > > > where is this documented? > > I don't think it is explicitly documented anywhere, but this may > be pertinent: > > "Upgrades are only supported from one release to the release > immediately > following it. Do not skip releases. If you got lucky skipping > releases > in the past, you may not this time."
excellent, copying the updated pxeboot(8) into place was the ticket. as this was not an upgrade, but instead a wipe-and-reload it never occurred to me that the boot(8) blurb in the upgrading documentation would have been relevant. i now understand that pxeboot(8) is just a modified version of boot(8), but still may not have found it myself because i didn't make that connection. thanks for pointing this out.
