Serial console capable BIOSes?

Does anyone have recommendations for motherboards (P3 or P4) with good BIOS serial console support that plays nicely with FreeBSD running a serial console on the same port? Basically, I'd like to monitor the pre-BSD boot process and the BSD boot process from a terminal window on another machine.

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

> That is way I here your problem but could not clearly see the problem with > any Os's. How about you install BSD and just clear the conf file which > shows Beastie at startup. Asking people to do something to easily remedy a situation of their own accord? Are you crazy? Steve B. __

dovecat-0.99.14 SSL option not present?

I am trying to get dovecat running on a FreeBSD-5.2.1 system with a nightly-updated ports tree. I am running into the problem that dovecat 0.99.14 is not compatible with GNUTLS at the moment, as document on this list previous to my joining: > # make config > > will allow you to redo your conf

jdk14 without X libraries?

I'm building /usr/ports/jdk14 on my 5.4-RELEASE i386, and it's using a lot of X.org stuff to do the build. I'm already using the -DMINIMAL flag, but I'd like a way to turn off all the graphical stuff. Does anyone here know how to do this?

gRIP doesn't RIP

Hello there, Anyone know how to get gRIP to grab songs off a CD and store them as .wav files? (for making "best of" CD's) I'm using it with dagrab. I never did get the builtin "cdparanoia" to work; I once had it working with dagrab but I'll be darned if I can do it again. ripping executable:

devfs creates unwanted devices in jail after ruleset applied

I am running a DNS server in a jail and have setup a devfs mount in the jail to have null and random devices. The setup works fine, but once I log out then log back in the pty and tty devices of my login get created in the jail. Which, of course, I don't want to happen. To clarify, I'm not talkin

Re: freebsd 6.1

> I `ve got a question about freebsd 6.1. > I try to install 6.1 on a celeron 1300 but it will not install. > When i try to install freebsd 5.5 on the same machine i don`1t have any > trouble. > What could be the reason? Any additional information such as how are you trying to install (CD? FT

Re: devfs creates unwanted devices in jail after ruleset applied

If no one has any ideas, suggestions on perhaps a better place to pose this question? Steve On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:52:55 -0500, "Steve Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I am running a DNS server in a jail and have setup a devfs mount in the > jail to have null and

Re: Did not use port_upgrade

> Do I need to make deinstall all of these ports and start all over? I'd appreciate someone correcting me if I'm wrong; I think you should just be able to upgrade your ports tree (directions in the Handbook) and then the ports will compile with the latest versions. Steve B.

Re: Geli questions.. ponderings..

> The idea: I'd like to use geli to encrypt *everything* on the disk. So > if someone (a competitor maybe) removes the disk from the machine, he > can't gain any data off of it easily. I know nothing is 100%, but why > make the process easy for him? It seems like there is a more basic proble