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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:29:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
Subject:   Re: diskless/serial-console
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001130102926.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <E141VPC-0003VD-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>

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On 30-Nov-00 Danny Braniss wrote:
> 
> }There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use:
> }http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch
> }
> }This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot.
> }
> thanks,
>       i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1
> removed the keyboard, but zero.
> i even commented out the ifdef(`PROBE_KEYBOARD',`
> and the test for the keyboard, only left 
>               orb $RBX_SERIAL, (%bx)          # enable serial console
> and still no output, btw, once the system is running, i can tip and it's ok.
> is the serial set to 9600?

Hmm, yes, the serial is the normal serial that the loader uses.  Looks like
I've fubar'd something or other in my pxeldr patch though.

> is there a way to tell whoever, to send kernel panics to serial? because
> that's
> all i want.

panic's occur on the console device, so serial console is hte way to go. :)

> Grrr, all this was to catch a panic that im getting, but now they stopped.
> 
>       danny

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