Subject: Re: serial console
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@tastylime.net>
List: current-users
Date: 01/22/2005 08:56:51
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

>In message <41F27E3E.5090400@tastylime.net>, Jeff Rizzo writes:
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>>Something like (not tested):
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>>installboot -o console=com0,speed=115200 /dev/fd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
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>>(this really doesn't belong on current-users;  either netbsd-help or 
>>port-i386 would have been more appropriate)
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>I read the question the same way Chris did: can you *run* sysinst 
>from a serial console at a different baud rate than 9600?
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With the caveat that I have not actually tried this myself (I install 
with sysinst from serial console at 9600), I don't see why not:  I've 
run the system with a console at 38400, and the bootblocks are the same.

+j