From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 5 04:21:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA13557 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 04:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA13550 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 04:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA01983; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:21:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA29787; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:20:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971005132012.TX35965@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:20:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Subject: Re: booting via serial device? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Oct 4, 1997 13:18:01 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Alfred Perlstein wrote: > am i using the wrong boot flags? how do i tell it to use the second serial > port? > > if FreeBSD expecting the connection to be on the first serial port? Yes, it is. Read /sys/i386/isa/sio.c to see which #defines are required to change this, then rebuild your kernel and bootblocks. (Don't forget to re_install_ the bootblocks using disklabel -B!) > and what kind of terminal emulation should i use on the terminal, i think > ANSI is correct? right? The console itself is a plain teletype-like device, so the emulation should be not important. Once the system has booted, something like a VT100 emulation is certainly the best you could get. (Win.95's ``ANSI'' or maybe even ``VT100'' is a weak subset of this, mainly the arrow keys won't work right with a vt100 $TERM variable.) -- 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. ;-)