libre #smartos

20 Jul 2026

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• 14:02
  vkarlsen
  Does SmartOS run a console on any discovered serial port by default?
• 14:06
  tsoome
  I believe the default setup is: console="text,ttya,ttyb,ttyc,tty
• 14:06
  tsoome
  d"
• 14:07
  tsoome
  that means text being default for kernel as we do not support dual console in kernel.
• 14:26
  jbk
  but it does setup ttymon processes on the serial ports IIRC
• 14:27
  jbk
  and there is a way somewhere I can't recall offhand to set the OS console
• 14:27
  jbk
  since being able to do things like run kmdb via SOL has always been seen as a pretty important thing
• 14:28
  jbk
  (just unfortunately there is no standard for that... e.g. supermicro tends to use COM2/ttyb for that while Dell I think uses COM1/ttya)
• 14:35
  jbk
  though I _think_ you can change the dell default
• 15:01
  fgudin
  hello
• 15:02
  fgudin
  i’m trying to update a port in pkgsrc and ’bmake package’ ends in error
• 15:02
  fgudin
  ===> Installing for burp-3.2.0
• 15:02
  fgudin
  => Generating pre-install file lists
• 15:02
  fgudin
  /usr/bin/bash: /opt/local/bin/bsdinstall: No such file or directory
• 15:03
  fgudin
  is it expected to require ’bsdinstall’ on SmartOS ? dumb question, but it’s my 1st time on this OS familly
• 15:08
  jperkin
  how did you get the build environment set up? that sounds like not having a bootstrap kit installed, or using a minimal bootstrap with an existing mk.conf that has bsdinstall configured
• 15:09
  jperkin
  the easiest way to get going at the moment is to provision a pkgbuild image as per github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/wiki/pkgdev:setup but when I get a few moments I'll be generating a much simpler setup using bob
• 15:09
  fgudin
  you’re probably right; i just discovered ’bootstrap-extra-files-20250308’
• 15:09
  fgudin
  i’ll check and retur
• 15:09
  fgudin
  n
• 15:11
  jperkin
  (there's also gist.github.com/jperkin/72075147e330b35eb4869898207e828e for a quick and dirty getting bob installed and running on omnios which should work on most distros module paths)