Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:01:56 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console annoyances Message-ID: <20000412000156.D31270@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200004120019.UAA07603@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:19:24PM -0400 References: <200004120019.UAA07603@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:19:24PM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > Hello, > > I have two 4.0-stable systems, one running headless, keyboardless, and > mouseless. > > If I understand correctly (ha!), the headless machine should dump the > serial console out sio0 automatically under the GENERIC kernel. (At > least, that's what my reading of the sio man page & the serial console > guide says.) I'm not sure of this. What's in /boot.config? I think you want, -P [snip] > My understanding of a serial console is that I should be able to watch > the boot messages, interrupt the boot loader, use userconfig, and so > on, from the second machine. I do this... Well, from a serial terminal, not a second machine. I have '-h' in my boot.config, however. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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