Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:14:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> Cc: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>, Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <200007111514.IAA28017@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <20000710154639.A26931@elvis.mu.org> from Paul Saab at "Jul 10, 2000 03:46:39 pm"
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Paul Saab writes: | Doug Ambrisko (ambrisko@whistle.com) wrote: | > Paul Saab writes: | > | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc | > | > Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts | > using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you have a | > BIOS that setups the baud rate etc. of the serial port then you would | > be okay. Current FreeBSD does this in the boot blocks and not the loader. | | Umm.. That isn't the case at all. I use it all the time and it surely | does init the com port. Yep, you're right I just tried it and it worked. I tried a similar thing once before with the loader and it failed for some reason to setup the serial port. Thanks for the enlightenment, it will be usefull. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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