Re: sysinst, serial console on soekris
David Laight <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.help |
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 06:54:17PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote: > Mark E. Perkins wrote: > > Is sysinst going to DTRT on it's own or ask > > me if I'm using a serial console? Or do I need to drop into a shell and > > run installboot after the installation is done (and before I reboot)? > > In theory, yes, sysinst will DTRT. In practise as well.... You can set the baud rate (speed) to 0 with installboot, in which case the boot code will determine the current rate (by reading the divisor registers) Which is actually quite handy when pxebooting a kernel. (use 'installboot -e' to modify the pxeboot iage) > In practice, I twice told sysinst not to replace my bootblocks, and it > twice did (and said as much), forcing me to run installboot afterwards. One day I'll get round to fixing that code... David -- David Laight: [email protected]