Re: Booting a NetBSD installer from pxelinux

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

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 08:47:21AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> You can installboot -e (on a NetBSD box, e.g:
> installboot -e -o console=com0,speed=9600,ioaddr=0x3f8 netbsdpxe.0) the
> NetBSD PXE boot loader to set the console parameters.
> This way it will automatically start on the serial port, you don't need
> to type 'consdev comx'.

Thanks, passing the io address solved the issue, now NetBSD correctly
finds the com port.