I have a Commell LE564 which will work happily with a serial console including doing BIOS stuff.
The BIOS allows use of a USB CD drive and that works too. Well, it works perfectly if you can just time it right and blindly type in the magic string to redirect the console to com0 and then you can do all of the install and thankfully some really kind dev gave us a choice to use serial console for running the installed OS. So I thought it would be cool to modify the CD boot to do the console switch that I remembered somebody describing some time back, and did the svnd mount of the cdrom41.fs, added /etc/ and put in a boot.conf containing "set tty com0". I noted that the image contained /boot and /bsd as expected. I then did mkhybrid with all the buttons and knobs and burned the resulting ISO to a CD. Mounting it shows the expected directory structure and when it is booted it announces that it is using a 2.88 floppy image and then gives out "ERR M" and locks up. I haven't suffered that before and found it in the FAQ but I'm none the wiser as to what could have happened in a CD boot situation. Anybody who has had this problem and worked it through can feel free to be very superior and lay a clue on me because I'm sure that it is a painful thing to debug except for the authors of the boot processes. Thanks, _Rod____ Depressed? Me? Don't make me laugh! :Spike Milligan:1918-2002:
