Re: [Testbed-admins] Can not bring up the first node for a new Emulab site

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:40:45PM -0400, chunhui Zhang(Evan) wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I will jump in the middle here, please excuse me if you have already
> > answered
> > any of my questions!
> >
> > In one of your earlier messages you had some text that "came out", was
> 
> 
> > that on the VGA or serial line?  It doesn't matter, as long as we have a
> > console that works.
> >
> 
> >
> > Do I understand correctly that the 47 MFS boots on the PIII node but the
> > 62 version does not?  Strange...
> >
> > No matter, let's go back to the 62 MFS, the 47 is a loser long term.
> >  Verify
> > that you have the right console selected in
> > /tftpboot/freebsd.newnode/boot/loader.conf.orig
> 
> 
> By changing the option 'console="comconsole"' to 'console="vidconsole"' in
> loader.conf.orig solved my problem!
> Thank you so much!  BTW, where can I find the document talking about this
> configuration?
> 
> 
> Evan Zhang
> 

How much of your problem did it solve?  Will the MFS boot on the newer node?

Re: documentation, I thought that console config was in the README for the MFS
but it isn't!  We need to fix that.