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From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk>
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Subject: Re: setting up a serial console..
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Hello OxY,

Thursday, May 25, 2006, 5:16:57 PM, you wrote:

> hi!

> i have a simple question, but i didn't found the answer.

> after i set console=comconsole in the /boot/loader.conf
> and rebooted every output has been sent to the serial console,
> it's normal...

> but! what if anything goes wrong, serial console not working, box cannot boot up..
> how can i change the comconsole setting back to vidconsole?
> is it possible?

 You should read more Handbook, it's a gread source of information:
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

-- 
Sincerely,
  Daniel Gerzo