Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 93, Issue 17

From: Jeremiah Wulf (lannenw_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/08/05

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    Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:23:55 -0700
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    > 1. Re: Serial console connection problem (Jonathan Chen)
    > 2. Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject) (wizlayer)
    > 3. Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject) (John Meing)
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    > Message: 1
    > Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:38:53 +1200
    > From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
    > Subject: Re: Serial console connection problem
    > To: Jani Luukkanen <jani@soundflows.com>
    > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > Message-ID: <20050408103853.GA6841@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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    > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:26:02PM +0300, Jani Luukkanen wrote:
    >
    > [...]
    > > Sorry for confusing explanation. The board has built in serial console
    > > feature, which you can turn on from bios. This allows you to access the
    > > machine through serial port no matter in what condition the machine
    > > would be. (Hanging in the boot-phase or kernel dead)
    > >
    > > Option has been set up so that the serial console replaces one of the
    > > comports. (In this case it would be replacing Com1 in the 5.3 machine)
    > > 4.10 is of course configured with ordinary serial ports so that it would
    > > have access to the serial terminal of the other machine.
    > >
    > > Might be this is irrelevant but just wondering does BSD need in that
    > > case some special conf for this purpose or just needs replacing the
    > > getty settings. (Previously with 4.10 configuration i managed to connect
    > > through minicom)
    >
    > Hmm. This is a different case altogether. I suspect that the 5.3
    > kernel is intefering with your BIOS console. You may have to disble
    > the kernel from recognising the port altogether so that it doesn't get
    > in the way.
    >
    > Cheers.
    > --
    > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > Jesus saves.
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    >
    > Message: 2
    > Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:55:31 -0400
    > From: wizlayer <wizlayer@gmail.com>
    > Subject: Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject)
    > To: John Meing <attackers@gmail.com>
    > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > Message-ID: <200504080655.32758.wizlayer@gmail.com>
    > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
    >
    > On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote:
    > > Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg
    > > (without the rc.conf lines)
    > >
    > > command="passwd root" system
    > >
    > > which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested
    > > with /stand/sysinstalld and it worked) but it didn't work when
    > > i put it in install.cfg :((
    > >
    > > John Meing
    > >
    > [snip]
    > > > Okay, but that still doesn't work for the syntax... Going
    > > > back to
    > > >
    > > > your original post:
    > > > > command="echo sendmail_enable="NONE" >> /etc/rc.conf"
    > > > > system
    > > >
    > > > would at best cause mismatching quote errors (which is what
    > > > I'm assuming you're getting?)
    > > >
    > > > Mike
    >
    > hmmm... I googled this list and found the following link (which
    > may wrap in email):
    >
    > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031620.html
    >
    > I'm thinking perhaps this function through sysinstall isn't
    > completely implemented yet.... or.... I've just noticed there's
    > no mention of a shell (hmmmm)...
    >
    > Maybe something like:
    >
    > # /stand/sysinstall command="sh passwd root" system
    >
    > Even though it doesn't seem to work from the command line, I
    > wonder if the problem isn't something along these lines? Perhaps
    > putting these commands into a script and then having install.cfg
    > run the script instead would clear it up.
    >
    > (I'm shooting in the dark here, I know... But now I'm curious...)
    >
    > Mike
    >
    > ------------------------------
    >
    > Message: 3
    > Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:10:34 +0700
    > From: John Meing <attackers@gmail.com>
    > Subject: Re: install.cfg (was RE: & No Subject)
    > To: wizlayer@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > Message-ID: <4f34b68f0504080410283a7d01@mail.gmail.com>
    > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
    >
    > Mike,
    >
    > Thanks alot for your suggestion, I'll try to put these lines to a
    > shell script and try to make install.cfg run them. I'll post results
    > soon.
    >
    > John Meing
    >
    > On Apr 8, 2005 5:55 PM, wizlayer <wizlayer@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote:
    > > > Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg
    > > > (without the rc.conf lines)
    > > >
    > > > command="passwd root" system
    > > >
    > > > which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested
    > > > with /stand/sysinstalld and it worked) but it didn't work when
    > > > i put it in install.cfg :((
    > > >
    > > > John Meing
    > > >
    > > [snip]
    > > > > Okay, but that still doesn't work for the syntax... Going
    > > > > back to
    > > > >
    > > > > your original post:
    > > > > > command="echo sendmail_enable="NONE" >> /etc/rc.conf"
    > > > > > system
    > > > >
    > > > > would at best cause mismatching quote errors (which is what
    > > > > I'm assuming you're getting?)
    > > > >
    > > > > Mike
    > >
    > > hmmm... I googled this list and found the following link (which
    > > may wrap in email):
    > >
    > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031620.html
    > >
    > > I'm thinking perhaps this function through sysinstall isn't
    > > completely implemented yet.... or.... I've just noticed there's
    > > no mention of a shell (hmmmm)...
    > >
    > > Maybe something like:
    > >
    > > # /stand/sysinstall command="sh passwd root" system
    > >
    > > Even though it doesn't seem to work from the command line, I
    > > wonder if the problem isn't something along these lines? Perhaps
    > > putting these commands into a script and then having install.cfg
    > > run the script instead would clear it up.
    > >
    > > (I'm shooting in the dark here, I know... But now I'm curious...)
    > >
    > > Mike
    > >
    >
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