[H-GEN] Debian install floppy boot problem

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:38:14PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Mind you, neither the doco nor my experience with the installer
> gave me any clues about how to do the install without a screen
> or keyboard attached, something that's both easy to do and well
> documented for systems like FreeBSD.  

I think it "just works" in some cases, although I'm not sure which ones.
Appending 'console=ttyS0,9600' (or similar as appropriate) should
work. You should be able to do that by editing the syslinux config file
on the MS DOS formatted floppy image, if you really don't have a keyboard.

> serial console install option, I'd have been able to escape from
> the attempt to drive the screen which turned it into so much
> useless real estate.

Appending 'vga=0' should work, I think. Alternatively 'video=vc:8' should.
(The former changes to 80x25 mode, the latter disables the frame buffer)

> Now, while I'm whining, can somebody tell me how to make that
> shpxvat boot selector thing that Debian installed remember which
> OS I chose last time and default to that for the next boot,
> instead of insisting on choosing Linux if nobody gets to it in
> time?

Doesn't seem to be a way of doing this. You should be able to say:

	debian# lilo -R freebsd

to make the default be your "freebsd" image next time you boot, fwiw.
Grub's more flexible.

Cheers,
aj

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