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Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: configuring console on 6.2
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At 01:55 PM 2/26/2007 -0800, Noah wrote:
>running 6.2
>
>I am trying to get the console DB9 port to work.  I want to be able 
>to log in via the DB9 port and alos I want console messages to 
>continue to output to the VGA card as well.
>
>Adding the following:
>
>echo 'console="comconsole"' >> /boot/loader.conf
>
>stops the dumping of console messages to the VGA during boot.
>
>
>What changes do I need to make to make that happen?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

the manual/handbook is a great thing.

-JD