Sunday, August 30, 2020

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

set timeout 5?

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:50 AM Henry W. Peterson <
henrywillpeterson@outlook.com> wrote:

> To Greg Thomas <get.misc.openbsd () gmail ! com>:
>
> Ok, one final question: Is there a way to make the boot process wait 5
> seconds for commands in the vga+keyboard phase but when "set tty com0" then
> load the kernel automatically?
>
> As a little test, I wrote in my personal computer's boot prompt "set tty
> pc0", it "switches to pc0" (it was already there, but shows again the
> "OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT X.XX" message) and it waits indefinitely for commands.
>
> If this happens in the ones with the serial port after "set tty com0",
> then I assume it would wait there indefinitely too.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>

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