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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:55:42 -0800
From:      "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com>
To:        "J.F. Noonan" <jfn@msc.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Serial Consoles
Message-ID:  <005701c07f89$580a6fe0$029b140a@danco>

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>I can the system to start to load at the serial console.  I can
>interrupt it before the countdown finishes and specify flags to
>the kernel (I am most interested in '-s', single user), but then
>when I tell it to boot it returns control to the VGA console.
>I have tried all the permutations of -D, -h , and -P and none will
>cause the *kernel*, not the loader to use the serial console.
>
>If anybody has gotten this to work, I would sure appreciate any
>advice you have.


Take a look at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi?sercon and
see if it helps you.

--Dan

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