Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:09:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Frank Mandarino <fam@risca.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: seeking advice re: configuring a serial console Message-ID: <19980521100926.G22701@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <98May20.194335edt.26881@sky.risca.com>; from Frank Mandarino on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 07:43:39PM -0400 References: <19980515111439.D305@freebie.lemis.com> <98May20.194335edt.26881@sky.risca.com>
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On Wed, 20 May 1998 at 19:43:39 -0400, Frank Mandarino wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> >> The boot: message itself is an uncertain case. It comes from the >> bootstrap, technically not part of FreeBSD, though it's supplied with >> it. The trouble is, when it starts it can't know where to write to >> until it reads in the commands, so I don't think it's possible to get >> it to write to the serial console. I suppose it would be possible to >> rewrite the bootstrap to always use the serial console, but I don't >> know of anybody who has done it. > > I got the boot: prompt to appear on the serial console of my > 2.2.6-RELEASE system by: > > 1) building my kernel with "options COMCONSOLE" to force the serial > console, and > > 2) creating a /boot.config file containing the option "-P", to use the > serial console if no keyboard is found, > > 3) unplugging my keyboard. > > The file /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial contains further > information. Thanks for the information, Frank. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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