Re: "switching console to com0"

2017-10-19 Thread Justin Mayes
Thanks for the replies all. This was very helpful. To clarify I was building some firewalls and didn’t have ssh running, a monitor/keyboard onsite, or install media. Disabling the serial port in the bios works though. J -Original Message- From: Dahlberg, David [mailto:david.dahlb...@fki

Re: "switching console to com0"

2017-10-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/17/17 08:02, Nick Holland wrote: ... > man boot has this: > > boot.conf processing can be skipped, and the automatic boot > cancelled, by holding down either Control key as boot starts. > ... > (I can rarely remember which key it is, so I often just hold > down CTRL, ALT and SHIFT o

Re: "switching console to com0"

2017-10-17 Thread Sterling Archer
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 10/17/17 00:03, Justin Mayes wrote: >> Greetings all - what does one do when during the install you set the >> default console to com0 and now your serial cable is not working? Buy a new serial cable? -- :wq!

Re: "switching console to com0"

2017-10-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/17/17 00:03, Justin Mayes wrote: > Greetings all - what does one do when during the install you set the > default console to com0 and now your serial cable is not working? I > cannot login to set the default console back to use the keyboard and > monitor. Instead of the boot prompt where I ca

Re: "switching console to com0"

2017-10-16 Thread tinkr
> Greetings all - what does one do when during the install you set the default > console to com0 and now your serial cable is not working? I cannot login to > set the default console back to use the keyboard and monitor. Instead of the > boot prompt where I can normally change settings and/or en