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Subject: Re: Connecting to a Headless machine, after install
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Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:01:29PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
>>Funny, that I'm struggling with opposite problem: I do not get the
>>boot messages over the serial cable, but do get the login prompt,
>>which I do not understand :(.
> 
> 
> You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial console:
> 
> # echo '-h' > /boot.config

Ah, thanks. I don't have a /boot.config yet. Are you sure this file goes
in the top-root directory? Or in /boot/... ?

You made me research a little more on this. I do have a file /boot/loader.conf.
How about having in here the line

   console="comconsole"

(to divert it from the default: console="vidconsole") ?

Or will that not do the same?

Rob.