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? Message-ID: <19971005132012.TX35965@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971004131406.203A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>; from Alfred Perlstein on Oct 4, 1997 13:18:01 -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971004131406.203A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
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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. ;-)
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