From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 10 15:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3919837B588 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B5ACA2B2A4; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:46:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:46:39 -0700 From: Paul Saab To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: Alan Edmonds , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <20000710154639.A26931@elvis.mu.org> References: <20000710135722.A24439@elvis.mu.org> <200007102231.PAA16902@whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007102231.PAA16902@whistle.com>; from ambrisko@whistle.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 03:31:36PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Ambrisko (ambrisko@whistle.com) wrote: > 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. Umm.. That isn't the case at all. I use it all the time and it surely does init the com port. -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message