From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 7 12:50:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA21280 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA21273 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA02110; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 20:50:08 GMT Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:50:07 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: jbutt@mwci.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console Questions.. In-Reply-To: <199712070636.AAA02172@subcellar.mwci.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, James D. Butt wrote: > I compiled the following into the kernel: > > options COMCONSOLE > options FORCE_COMCONSOLE I don't include these options and serial consoles work fine. I think you may need to boot with -h the very first time (using KB and CRT) to get it to switch to the serial port. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82