From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 26 12:31:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02098 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02079 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07479; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:54:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: (jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id OAA25802; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:33:27 -0500 Message-ID: <19970826143326.48713@right.PCS> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:33:26 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Raul Zighelboim Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: serial console References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Raul Zighelboim on Aug 08, 1997 at 11:59:20AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Aug 08, 1997 at 11:59:20AM -0500, Raul Zighelboim wrote: > Does anyone knows of a PC BIOS that will send boot information to a > serial console (and accept keyboar imput from the serial console instead > of the local graphic/keyboard combination ? If you meant to ask: 'Can I boot and run my PC with a serial console only, and no keyboard?', then yes. This is done by the BSD bootblocks. add "flags 0x30" to the sio0 line in your kernel config file, and then do "echo -h > /boot.config", to force serial console usage. If you want to run a serial console on something other than COM1, then you need custom bootblocks: see src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial -- Jonathan