freebsd stable - Nov 2004 - Redirecting console output to serial port to capture error message

Is the console redirection functionality of the boot floppies and
distribution iso disks intended to be diffent from that of a system
installed on a hard drive?

    echo -h > /boot.config to enable the serial console for the
        boot loader and kernel.

isn't getting the job done for me. On the boot floppies, there is something
that actually announces itself as setting the comconsole back to
vidconsole and on the cd images there is an error message that I would
like to capture, that seems to ignore the setting of comconsole.

Roger L. Beeman

> Is the console redirection functionality of the boot floppies and
> distribution iso disks intended to be diffent from that of a system
> installed on a hard drive?
> 
>     echo -h > /boot.config to enable the serial console for the
>         boot loader and kernel.
> 
> isn't getting the job done for me. On the boot floppies, there is
something
> that actually announces itself as setting the comconsole back to
> vidconsole and on the cd images there is an error message that I would
> like to capture, that seems to ignore the setting of comconsole.
I know this one!

If you're trying to use the serial console at initial install
time, then maybe this page will be useful to you:

<http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/embedded/stories/bdgFreeBSDHeadless.html>

I haven't tried to set it up so that once the install is done
I can use the serial console.

It's probably better to SSH into the box...

Ralph