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Date:      Wed, 8 May 1996 21:21:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   booting without a monitor?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960508211448.18531A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu>

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Hello;

	I have built a 386 that i am using as a fulltime freebsd/samba
box. I have no desire to have a monitor on this box, because it sits next
to one of my 2 dualboot 386's that have FreeBSD and windows.

	If there is no monitor on the machine, then syscons spits up and
the machine reboots. I have added "option COMCONSOLE" to the kernel ( as
mentioned in the LINT config file ) without any success.

	I would assume this would be possible, because i thought that Bill
Paul was booting a machine over the phoneline somewhere...

	Anybody know how this is supposed to work? I would like to have
the console operated from the serial port of the neighboring machine...

tnx;

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 John Utz	spaz@u.washington.edu
	idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life




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