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Subject: Re: serial consoles
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On 12/25/11 07:46, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
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> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Matthew Luckie <mjl@luckie.org.nz
> <mailto:mjl@luckie.org.nz>> wrote:
>
>     One thing I have not done is touch /boot/loader.conf.  I'm not
>     worried about seeing the system boot messages, just the ability to
>     login after the system has booted -- i.e. I did not do step 2 of
>     27.6.2.  Should I have?
>
>     Matthew
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>
> I think , YES , because this statement will direct the output to serial
> port , please , also study the part

$ cat /boot.config
-D

This was sufficient to get the setup I wanted -- the ability to login 
over a serial port should I want to.  Sorry for the noise, this was all 
in the handbook.

Matthew