From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 11 15:43:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA00487 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:43:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00470 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:43:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA15571; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:41:50 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA28066; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:41:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id AAA01114; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:29:34 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603112329.AAA01114@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:29:33 +0100 (MET) Cc: ambrisko@tcs.com (Douglas Ambrisko) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603112129.NAA02528@cozumel.tcs.com> from "Douglas Ambrisko" at Mar 11, 96 01:29:57 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Douglas Ambrisko wrote: > - Hacked the biosboot code to echo and take input from both the > graphics screen/keyboard and com1. This way I can control the boot Great! > by either the normal console or serial console. It would be nice > if I could save the boot mode for the default of the next boot. > very common? Also with the method, I don't have to worry about > keyboard probes but may have to for a serial port. Probing for a serial port is much easier. The idea behind the keyboard probe was stolen from workstations: if no keyboard is present, default to the first serial port. You can only have one system console, so at least by the time you're going to boot the kernel, you must have made a decision. > - Run getty on /dev/console and not on /dev/ttyv0, so I get a console > getty no matter which way I boot. Hmm, there was a saying the running getty on /dev/console used to be totally broken. Bruce? Ever tried it lately? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)