Serial Console Install

[Lanny Baron]

Hi,
If you are trying to install FreeBSD on a bare system (workstation or 
server) do the following:

1) press 6 at the loader prompt (when you get the neat text-graphic of 
Beastie <tm>
2) you should get a 'OK'
3) type: set console=comconsole
3) you will get another 'OK'
4) type boot

That should get you going.

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David Aquilina wrote:

> I've asked this question before as part of another post, however it
> seems people ignore it. So, I thought I'd break it out separately.
> 
> I'm trying to do a serial console installation for various reasons.
> However, it stops at this point:
> 
> md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff808e4ba0
> ad0: 78533MB <HDS722580VLAT20/V32OA63A> [159560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
> ATAPI_RESET time = 50us
> acd0: CDRW <AOPEN COM5232/AAH/1.06> at ata1-master UDMA33
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0
> 
> I set the "console" variable in the loader to "comconsole", then in
> the serial console boot with "boot -h". I've also tried "boot -D", but
> it still stops at the same point. I've tried this with both
> 5.2.1-RELEASE and a recent 5.3-BETA.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or have I run across a bug?
> 
> If a bug, what's the proper way to report it? 
> 
> Thanks. 
>