[Soekris] PXE Installation of OpenBSD 4.2 on Soekris 4801
Chris Cappuccio
chris at nmedia.net
Thu Dec 20 22:10:15 UTC 2007
at the boot> prompt, you need to use the following commands to enable
the serial terminal:
set tty com0
stty com0 19200
and in /etc/ttys, tty00 should look like this:
tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200" vt100 on secure
Lars Nood??n [lars at umich.edu] wrote:
> I'm working with a new Soekris 4801 w/256MB RAM and wonder about getting
> OpenBSD installed so that the system boots. Once I can get to SSH, I'm
> home free.
>
> Netboot using PXE and tfptd goes well: I've gotten things set up so I
> can do the net boot + install and that whole installation procedure
> appears to run flawlessly.
>
> However, when I get to booting the installed system, things just appear
> to hang. Here is the output from the serial connection just before that
> happens:
>
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/net4801.txt
>
> Where can I find info about how OpenBSD needs to be configured
> differently from your average tower/rack mounted system so as to boot
> from CF with no HD?
>
> Regards
> -Lars
>
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