Redirecting console output to serial port to capture error message

[Ralph Hempel]

> Is the console redirection functionality of the boot floppies and
> distribution iso disks intended to be diffent from that of a system
> installed on a hard drive?
> 
>     echo -h > /boot.config to enable the serial console for the
>         boot loader and kernel.
> 
> isn't getting the job done for me. On the boot floppies, there is something
> that actually announces itself as setting the comconsole back to
> vidconsole and on the cd images there is an error message that I would
> like to capture, that seems to ignore the setting of comconsole.

I know this one!

If you're trying to use the serial console at initial install
time, then maybe this page will be useful to you:

<http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDHeadless.html>

I haven't tried to set it up so that once the install is done
I can use the serial console.

It's probably better to SSH into the box...

Ralph