Re: booting on the serial console

2010-03-03 Thread The Anarcat
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:44:05PM -0700, Joey Korkames wrote: >> Usually, in BSD, you pass -P or -h to the /boot/loader in boot.config. >> But since that loader is now completely bypassed in the boot process, >> that doesn't work. I haven't found in the FreeBSD documentation what >> -P/-h actually

Re: booting on the serial console

2010-03-03 Thread Joey Korkames
Usually, in BSD, you pass -P or -h to the /boot/loader in boot.config. But since that loader is now completely bypassed in the boot process, that doesn't work. I haven't found in the FreeBSD documentation what -P/-h actually *does* at the machine level, or rather if it passes "commandline" argumen

booting on the serial console

2010-02-25 Thread The Anarcat
Hi! I have successfully installed kFreeBSD on my workstation using QEMU, and I am now heading for my personnal holy grail: setting up a Soekris-based Debian GNU/kFreeBSD router. (For those who do not know those devices, soekris boxes are small embedded computers that have no display but a serial