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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 06:40:40 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Does booting from install floppy with a serial console still work?
Message-ID:  <37262ED8.125DCD2E@newsguy.com>
References:  <19990427155741.A46511@freebie.lemis.com> <19990427072411.8BAC21F58@spinner.netplex.com.au> <19990427180052.G46511@freebie.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> Oops, sorry, I didn't make as clear as I should have that this was the
> install floppy.  I don't have any difficulties doing this from an
> installed system (modulo the undocumented fact that if you have sio0
> configured as a low-level debug port that it will switch back to vga
> again).

The installation floppy also uses loader (in fact, even if you did
boot kernel directly, it would have failed because loader.rc was not
run).

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..."




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