From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 00:22:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA01968 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 00:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA01963 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 00:22:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA16890; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:22:39 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA24749; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:22:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA25649; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:14:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603090814.JAA25649@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Serial console? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:14:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: mdz@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603090134.MAA11451@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 9, 96 12:04:46 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > Has any work been done on adapting a console driver to talk VT100/220 on a > > serial port, ... > options COMCONSOLE in your kernel config, rebuild, reboot. j@uriah 216% find /sys/i386 -name '*.c' | fgrep COMCONSOLE j@uriah 217% Simply boot with -h instead. If you wanna make the change permanent, rebuild your bootblocks with FORCE_COMCONSOLE (see the comment in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)