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From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To: "Jason Borkowsky" <jcborkow@tcpns.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Headless FreeBSD/redirecting console
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:16:43 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Borkowsky" <jcborkow@tcpns.com>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: Headless FreeBSD/redirecting console


>
> Greetings! I am looking how to make a headless FreeBSD server. I have a
box
> running FreeBSD 4.6.2 and want to redirect console to the serial port.
When
> I do a "man sio":
>
> 0x00020   device is forced to become system console
>
> So in my kernel file, I added that for sio1, recompile, installed, and
> rebooted:
>
> device          sio1    at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x20 irq 3
>
> However, console is still going to the monitor. So how can I redirect it?
>
> Also, I have a Tyan motherboard and can redirect console to the serial
port,
> and this works fine until FreeBSD boots. Once it boots, it takes back
> control and the console once again goes to the monitor.
>
> So any info on redirecting console to the serial port would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks!

I'm not 100% on this, but I think adding console="comconsole" to
/boot/loader.conf will do the trick.

--
Matt Emmerton


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