Re: [Testbed-admins] Set the console type

[Ginnah <jn1114@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your response :)

 

I just followed the direction on the documentation.

 

What file I changed is /tftboot/freebsd.newnode/boot/loader.conf.orig

What parts in that file I changed are just commenting 'console = "comconsole"' and uncommenting 'console = "vidconsole"'.

After modifying the file, I did ./prepare.

 

Actually, I could use the video console before. And I got the serial console back.

But even though I did the same thing, it doesn't work now.

I don't understand what happened here.

 

Could you help me??

 

Thanks.

 

Ginnah

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Leigh Stoller <stoller@flux.utah.edu> wrote:

We are facing the problem to set the console type of newnode MFS.
We want to use video console.

But even after modifying loader.conf.orig file(comment
console="comconsole" and uncomment console="vidconsole") and doing
prepare, we can not see anything on VGA of the node.  We already
checked the serial port (comconsole) is working well.

Could anybody help with this problem?

Can you describe how changed the file please? Just want to make sure
that you got the MFS file saved out properly on boss.

Lbs

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