From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 11 9:18:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609ED37BBF2 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:18:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p36-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.37]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id CAA29901; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 02:18:22 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38CA7F91.ED53019B@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 02:17:05 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Thompson Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson wrote: > > I'm not sure, that's why I asked the list :-) Really, what I was asking > is if there is a better way to detect a serial console.. Rather than the > current logic of "If there is no keyboard, there must be a serial > console". I can think of N reasons why a box would have no keyboard > attached, besides having a serial console. You can force loader on this matter. Man loader(8) and loader.conf(5). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message