From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 28 13:33:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD42D14FC4 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:33:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06637; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:32:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: "Chris D. Faulhaber" Cc: Steve Mickeler , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: comconsole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Steve Mickeler wrote: > > > I have been searching the web and testing hi and low, but have yet to see > > a straight answer about getting COMCONSOLE working under 3.2 Stable. > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this ? > > > > COMCONSOLE has been depricated...see sio(4) flags. In addition, > /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial has further tips on serial consoles. Only you should note that rebuilding the boot blocks there won't change anything for you, the new place to do that is /sys/boot. Also, what kind of com console are you interested in having? There are two different things, one is getting a login prompt on the com console that allows you to log in directly to the machine as if it were a real monitor and keyboard console. The other is directing the boot messages to the serial console. Assuming that you have the proper cabling, the first is easy to set up, just follow the instructions in the handbook. Once you get the login prompt set up, redirecting the boot messages should be easy. First, the COMCONSOLE kernel option is now deprecated, see the sio options in LINT for more details. Also, you should read the info in the /boot directory, and read the man pages for loader and boot. At this point the easiest way to use the -P option is to put 'boot -P' as the last line of your /boot/loader.rc file. Good luck, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message