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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>>...
>>     For wcarchive, I use the BOOT_FORCE_COMCONSOLE make option. I run gettys

I wrote:
>This option doesn't exist in 2.2.5 or 3.0.  You set flags on the desired
>serial console instead.  See sio(4) in 3.0.  The documentation is out of
>date in 2.2.5.

Oops, the serial console flags don't exist in 2.2.5.  Only 2.2.5's
/etc/make.conf is out of date.  It "documents" the wrong BOOT* make options.
2.2.5's README.serial is anachronistic.  It documents the 3.0 serial
console flags which don't exist in 2.2.5.

Bruce