I have a PC Engines APU platform that has no video console but only a serial one. Although there is a brief documentation in the handbook on how to get the installation image working on the serial console (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-advanced.html) a lot of things are missing or troublesome to get a properly working system manageable over the serial console only: - Installation images have to be modified by hand to get serial console support - Serial console is not enabled in the installed system, making it unusable for me - Booting the installation image again and entering the rescue shell gives me no easy way to mount the installed system if it is on ZFS. Importing/ exporting the pool is not very intuitive. - Enabling SSHD during installation is an option. Later you can login over network and fix the serial console. But this relies on configuring a non-root user during installation and giving him the wheel group, otherwise you can not become root on the installed system over SSH. Fix: - Provide pre-built installation images with serial console support - Provide option in installer to enable serial console on installed system - Provide documentation on how to fix a system on ZFS with the rescue shell - Provide option/documentation on how to configure user(s) to be able to fix installed system via SSH How-To-Repeat: - Install fresh system on hardware with serial console support, put root on ZFS and enable SSHD - Boot into the installed system, check serial console login - Reboot to rescue shell, try configuring serial console - Try logging in via SSHD, becoming root and configuring serial console
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