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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:31:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
To:        Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
Cc:        Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!
Message-ID:  <200007102231.PAA16902@whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000710135722.A24439@elvis.mu.org> from Paul Saab at "Jul 10, 2000 01:57:22 pm"

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Paul Saab writes:
| set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc

Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts
using it so you end up with junk out the port.  However, if you have a
BIOS that setups the baud rate etc. of the serial port then you would
be okay.  Current FreeBSD does this in the boot blocks and not the loader.

Doug A.


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