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Subject: Re: Booting using serial console
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Gary Aitken wrote:

> I've made the serial console boot floppies, but get no response when I
> try to use them.

Give that I use that quite a lot with 4.8 - I'd expect that it perhaps is
something like COM1 not connected in the bios or on the motherboard ?

Dw