Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 19:40:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Newell <mnewell@kaizen.net> To: Greg Laslett <abseil@thehub.com.au> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Serial Console Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.92.960503193609.6446W-100000@dada.kaizen.net> In-Reply-To: <01BB3991.41DC0500@dd04.thehub.com.au>
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On Sat, 4 May 1996, Greg Laslett wrote: > I would like to do away with my VGA card and keyboard, using a serial terminal as a console via COM1 instead. I think you'll have to have a VGA card; from what I've seen most BIOSen consider the lack of a video card to be fatal and they won't get past POST. Many modern BIOSen will let you leave off the keyboard [some require a flag be set], although older ones will generate a "Keyboard error - press F1 to continue" sort of error.... :-) > Can anyone suggest a reasonable CONFIG file to build a kernel that will do > this ? I just set "options COMCONSOLE" in my config file, built and installed the kernel, and it worked fine. You can't [surprise!] use the com1 port as a SLIP/PPP line, but who'd want to anyway? Mike
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