From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 4 10:12:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA24703 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 10:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA24693 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 10:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA00208 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 13:18:01 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 13:18:01 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: booting via serial device? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having a little trouble getting FreeBSD to boot to a serial port, i have my second serial port null modem'd to a win95 PC, when i: echo whatever > /dev/ttyd1 it comes across, however when i try the combination of -D and -h flags at the "boot:" prompt i get nothing. am i using the wrong boot flags? how do i tell it to use the second serial port? if FreeBSD expecting the connection to be on the first serial port? and what kind of terminal emulation should i use on the terminal, i think ANSI is correct? right? any help with this would be great, thank you, .________________________________________________________________________ __ _ |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin --"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?" |perlsta@sunyit.edu --"who was that masked admin?" |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta : '