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From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
To: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com>
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Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!
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set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc

paul

Alan Edmonds (aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) wrote:
> 
> I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot.   I have a question about
> setting the serial console option.  The PC BIOS reports 
> 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports
> console as internal keyboard/video.  So, I'm looking at
> hard coding a serial console into BTX.  Normally, you
> put the -h option into /boot.conf, but PXE doesn't
> read that.  I tried putting console=comconsole into
> /boot/loader.rc, but it didn't work quite right.
> I modified src/sys/boot/i386/common/conf.c and
> removed the vidconsole option and that worked.
> I could set the flags in the kernel to 0x20 to
> force serial and that worked.
> 
> I'd like a more 'supported' option.  That allowed
> me access to BTX before booting the kernel.  Does
> anyone have a suggestion?  Is there a /etc/make.conf
> option I could set?  
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Alan Edmonds      Director of International Technology
> DigitalConvergence.:Com
> aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com
> Phone: +1-214-292-6040
> 
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