Re: amd64 6-release cd install, no serial console joy

I am having similar problems on a Dell 2850  using 6.0R AMD64, but I 
believe its not something to do with my hardware although I don't have 
any other AMD64/EMT64 server to test on.

I don't think I have actually done a ISO install via serial console on 
6.0-Release but I think I did on beta versions and it did work.
I have been trying to do a PXE install and watching it all via serial 
console and it works fine as long as I dont use 6.0-Release files. Using 
a 6.0beta with PXE is working it fully boots the kernel and brings up 
sysinstall my only problem now is that when it tries to do a FTP install 
it goes for a 6.0beta5 directory which doesn't exist. When I  try to use 
a 6.0-Release I can get it to boot loader and then get it to load the 
kernel but after that it disappears don't get any boot messages at all.

Mike

Jan Isley wrote:

>Trying to install amd64 6.0 release on some Dells, PE850 and PE2850. 
>BIOS all setup same as what works just fine with 5.4 (both i386 and
>amd64 cds).  boot -h appears to work until it gets to the loader and
>the console output goes to video.  No keyboards or monitors plugged
>in, just a serial console server.  Have tried variations on serial
>redirect in the BIOS but nothing seems to work.
>
>Anyone else have success or no with serial console redirect on amd64 6.0 cd?
>
>regards,
>-Jan
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