docs/95408: install over serial console does not work as documented

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR docs/95408; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-doc at freebsd.org
Cc: Harti Brandt <harti at freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/95408: install over serial console does not work as documented
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:58:20 -0400

 On Thursday 06 April 2006 08:29, Harti Brandt wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         95408
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       install over serial console does not work as documented
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          doc-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 06 12:30:20 GMT 2006
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Harti Brandt
 > >Release:        6.1-beta4
 > >Organization:
 > DLR
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 > The installation document describes a procedure to install on i386 over a 
 > serial console. It recommends to either unplug the keyboard or to interrupt the boot and boot with boot -h.
 > 
 > Boot -h turns out not to work. While all the kernel messages from the probing
 > appear on both the normal console and the serial one, after mounting the root
 > file system the system switches entirely to the normal console.
 > 
 > Instead the following procedure will do it (but require at least a keyboard on the machine in question):
 > 
 > - interrupt the boot in the boot menu by pressing 6
 > - enter the following lines:
 > 
 > set boot_multicons="YES"
 > set boot_serial="YES"
 > set console="comconsole"
 > boot
 
 Are you doing 'boot -h' at the loader prompt?  I think all you need to do is
 break into the loader and do:
 
 set console="comconsole vidconsole"
 
 instead.
 
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