On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Jason Evans wrote: > I tried various methods for installing the March 2007 snapshot using PXE (no > CD-ROM drive), but I ran into a combination of problems that made this > seemingly impossible. > > 2) When booting with a serial console, the machine switches back to the vga > console when sysinstall launches. The 6.2 snapshot has the same problem. > Perhaps there is a bad interaction with pxeboot, but I'm not familiar enough > with the boot process to know where to look. yes, ran into something like that before. boot -h does not seem to do the trick. But if you do set console="comconsole" at the loader prompt it should work. I have no idea why that's the way it is. I spent half an hour looking at the code and then a "timeout fired". May I add another item? 3) in systinstall when one adds a user to a different partition like /u1 with a home of /u1/home/bz that did not work. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeTReceived on Tue Apr 10 2007 - 05:30:19 UTC
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