From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 10 15:35: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A610837B642 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA43666; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA16902; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200007102231.PAA16902@whistle.com> Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! In-Reply-To: <20000710135722.A24439@elvis.mu.org> from Paul Saab at "Jul 10, 2000 01:57:22 pm" To: Paul Saab Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Alan Edmonds , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Saab writes: | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you have a BIOS that setups the baud rate etc. of the serial port then you would be okay. Current FreeBSD does this in the boot blocks and not the loader. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message