From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 8:40:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2535437BD80 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA62034; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA28017; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200007111514.IAA28017@whistle.com> Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! In-Reply-To: <20000710154639.A26931@elvis.mu.org> from Paul Saab at "Jul 10, 2000 03:46:39 pm" To: Paul Saab Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Doug Ambrisko , Alan Edmonds , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Saab writes: | 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. Yep, you're right I just tried it and it worked. I tried a similar thing once before with the loader and it failed for some reason to setup the serial port. Thanks for the enlightenment, it will be usefull. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message