Re: Booting a NetBSD installer from pxelinux

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau%entel.upc.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:08:15PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> Thanks!, this is really and advance. I can get to the NetBSD
>> bootloader, and using boot tftp:path/to/netbsd-INSTALL.gz finds and
>> loads the kernel, but it's tedious to write boot tfp:path/to/kernel,
>> is there some way to pass a config file as an argument to netbsdpxe.0?
>> That would be great.
>>
>> Another problem that I've found (both from the BETA6 CD or the PXE
>> bootloader) is that "consdev comx" doesn't seem to work for me. I've
>> tried all the comX options, but the kernel always throws it's output
>> to the VGA port, any thoughts on this one? This is a Dell R310 by the
>> way.
>
> I've not tried 'consdev comx', but installboot -e does work for me.
> I've found that on some systems the BIOS doesn't properly export com
> parameters, and installboot also needs the I/O port and speed ...

My main problem is that I would like to realize the install from the
serial port, but since "consdev comx" doesn't seem to work I don't
know what other options I have.

I've also realized that when booting from VGA with the 6.0BETA install
CD the install process gets stuck after something like:

boot device:
root device:

And there's no output behind this point (although I see the CD gets
recognized by the kernel). That's why I wanted to use the serial
console, so I can paste the output of the boot process and hopefully
find the error.

Thanks, Roger.