Re: Xen console detection/selection

[Erik Fair <fair%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Apr 28, 2014, at 14:34 , eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen) wrote:

> Here's what I have on a little HP workstation, and I have used
> on a Sun X2200M2 in the past:
> 
>    menu=Xen dom0:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0 console=pc;multiboot /xen.gz 
> dom0_mem=2048M
> 
> Note the lack of any console definition on the xen kernel line.
> This was last used with xenkernel42/xentools42 (currently the
> system is running GENERIC, as it no longer needs to run a VM.)

That did the trick - I wonder what documentation I missed where "pc" was 
described as an option for "console=" ... ?

Ah, it's in boot(8) and boot_console(8), the latter of which is not linked into 
the amd64 subdirectory of /usr/share/man/man8, which is a bug.

        Erik <fair%clock.org@localhost>