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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:14:25 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        mdz@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial console?
Message-ID:  <199603090814.JAA25649@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603090134.MAA11451@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 9, 96 12:04:46 pm

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > Has any work been done on adapting a console driver to talk VT100/220 on a
> > serial port, ...

> options COMCONSOLE in your kernel config, rebuild, reboot.

j@uriah 216% find /sys/i386 -name '*.c' | fgrep COMCONSOLE
j@uriah 217% 

Simply boot with -h instead.  If you wanna make the change permanent,
rebuild your bootblocks with FORCE_COMCONSOLE (see the comment in
/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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