[syslinux] - Re: FreeBSD-6.2 and pxelinx

Oliver Klein o.klein at comdivision.com
Tue Jul 3 05:21:55 PDT 2007


>For what it's worth, adding "console=" to a memdisk command line is a 
>total waste of time.

>Neither memdisk nor whatever it is booting (FreeBSD, in this case) will 
>do anything with it.

this i didn´t know and in my desperation I add those parameters to the append line....thx for your instruction

Mit freundlichem Gruß / Best regards
Oliver Klein

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
Sent: Samstag, 30. Juni 2007 06:09
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] FreeBSD-6.2 and pxelinx 

Pascal Vandeputte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "console=ttyS0,38400" tells me you're controlling things trough a serial line... Have you customized the ISO image so the rest of the boot process also runs everything on that serial line? If not, once the FreeBSD kernel is loaded, it will continue booting on the VGA console instead of the serial port. And you won't see a thing in your minicom/hyperterminal session.
> 

For what it's worth, adding "console=" to a memdisk command line is a 
total waste of time.

Neither memdisk nor whatever it is booting (FreeBSD, in this case) will 
do anything with it.

>>
>> LABEL FreeBSD-6.2
>>         kernel memdisk
>>         append console=ttyS0,38400 initrd=6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.img c=812 h=255 s=63
>>

	-hpa

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