From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 27 12:09:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA28601 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA28596 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA29396 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:09:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708271909.NAA29396@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:09:31 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, >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 this document gives no info on building/installing bootblocks. could someone give us a concise cookbook style description of how to safely do these 2 steps, or point to a document that does? -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD