From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 21:22:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA06017 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 21:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from becker2.u.washington.edu (spaz@becker2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA06012 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 21:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by becker2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.04/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA02355; Wed, 8 May 96 21:22:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 21:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting without a monitor? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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; ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life