From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 16:58:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA22066 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 16:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (root@tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp [133.246.32.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22060 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 16:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (masafumi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (8.7.5/3.4W4-SMTP) with ESMTP id IAA15307; Sat, 4 May 1996 08:58:03 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199605032358.IAA15307@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: max@sfc.wide.ad.jp Subject: Re: Serial Console From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= Reply-To: max@sfc.wide.ad.jp X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.1, Mule 2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 08:58:02 +0900 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Greg Laslett Subject: Serial Console Date: 4 May 1996 01:38:51 +0200 > I would like to do away with my VGA card and keyboard, using a serial terminal as a console via COM1 instead. > > Can anyone suggest a reasonable CONFIG file to build a kernel that will do > this ? You can make serial console either by building kernel with `options COMCONSOLE' in your kernel config file, or to install boot block compiled with FORCE_COMCONSOLE macro defined. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Masafumi NAKANE, Keio Univ., Dept. of Environmental Information E-Mail : t94303mn@sfc.keio.ac.jp / max@sfc.wide.ad.jp [URL] : http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~t94303mn