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Contributed by jose on from the tips-and-tools dept.
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http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~mhiltune/bsd/
It is made for OpenBSD 2.9, but it is still very accurate for setting up 3.4... I've used it to help get 3.4 netbooting on a sparcstation myself.
By RC () on
If you put "set tty com0" in your /etc/boot.conf, you will also have serial port control from the second the "boot>" prompt comes up, which is what you need when your system refuses to boot to multiuser mode for some reason (eg. fsck needs user intervention).
Unfortunately, none of the x86 machines I've tried it on, are able to pass arguments to the "boot>" prompt. Instead, the system will freeze-up, and needs to be rebooted.
So, on x86, you can't force the system to go to single-user mode, or to boot a different kernel, but if fsck throws you into single-user mode, you don't need to attach a monitor and keyboard just to type f-s-c-k.
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By RC () on
I have no idea how installboot would possibly help you control the boot process over a serial console. Perhaps you are confusing some other program with installboot?
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By Anonymous Coward () on
Working 25 hours a day, 8 days a week doesn't help... ;-)