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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 09:50:23 -0400
From: "Kim Culhan" <w8hdkim@gmail.com>
To: "Harti Brandt" <harti@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: serial console installation of 6.1-BETA4
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>From some recent research into serial console for use on 6.1-PRERELEASE
the best method was to create a boot.config file in the root directory:

/boot.config

with one line containing just:

-P

This produces a console on both the internal console as well as on the
serial port.

Hope this helps

-kim

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