On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:36:33PM +0800, Paul Reece wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've recently set up remote booting both via PXE and also Etherboot & > Grub so I can boot my workstation remotely into FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT and > FreeBSD 4.9. > > PXE - works great, however, I'd like to get a boot menu system going, > which is why I'm toying with Grub. > > The most notable problem is with FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT - If I boot into > FreeBSD using Etherboot or Grub (and as such, bypass the loader), the > console output disappears. i think you can fix this by statically compiling the 'hints' into the kernel -- probably the solution is simpler than this, but this one does work cheers luigi > Once the system has booted, a login prompt pops up as per usual - just > nothing beforehand after Grub or Etherboot loads the kernel. > > Is there a setting somewhere in the kernel config (at compile time) or is > the kernel defaulting to a serial console because some environment variables > or similar arent being passed to it by the loader as per usual? > > Or is this a bug rather than a feature?.. in 4.X kernels, the console > continues to function after Grub or Etherboot loads the kernel. > > Cheers, > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Fri Apr 30 2004 - 04:26:17 UTC
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