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Subject: Re: disabling all serial input / output at boot time
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At 12:59 PM 4/15/2010, Rui Paulo wrote:

>If not, maybe there's some way to do this by changing the hints file.

Prior to /boot/loader running, is that even consulted ?

         ---Mike

>Regards,
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>Rui Paulo

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