From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 17: 1:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kodos.tinet.ie (kodos.tinet.ie [159.134.237.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A46737BC07 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcfbsd@mail2.eircom.net) Received: from p77.as1.naas1.eircom.net ([159.134.254.77]) by kodos.tinet.ie with smtp (Exim 2.05 #23) id 12ftXl-0005B2-00; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:01:07 +0100 Subject: Re: serial console annoyances Date: Fri, 14 Apr 00 01:03:51 +0100 x-sender: fcfbsd@mail2.eircom.net x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0, March 15, 1997 From: fcfbsd To: "Christian Weisgerber" , "FreeBSD Organisation" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i don't know about different versions but the installation i have (3.4-STABLE) does dump out the console sio0 by default (GENERIC) . . . and just as well as i have no previous installation to check boot(8) & am far too ignorant to have managed otherwise. >Michael Lucas wrote: > >> If I understand correctly (ha!), the headless machine should dump the >> serial console out sio0 automatically under the GENERIC kernel. > >No. You need to tell the bootstrap to use a serial console. >See boot(8). > >-- >Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message