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Subject: Re: serial console installation of 6.1-BETA4
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 05:46:59PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> 
> 
> is the above supposed to work? I tried to follow what is written in the installation 
> manual: unplugging the keyboard does nothing, booting with 'boot -h' gives me all the 
> kernel's device probing messages on both the serial console and the normal console, 
> but after 'mounting root from ...'
> sysinstall appears on the normal console.

loader.conf:
# serial console
boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
console="comconsole"

WBR