Subject: Re: enabling serial port as a console
To: Thierry LACOSTE <lacoste@univ-paris12.fr>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/18/2005 14:15:04
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Thierry LACOSTE wrote:
> Many architecture's firmwares (e.g. sparc, alpha, sgi) let you control
> the machine via a serial console if it is booted without a keyboard.
> AFAICS there is no such facility with PC's BIOS.  How do you configure
> an i386 such that it can boot NetBSD either "normally" or via a serial
> console?

you can set console with the "consdev" command in the 2nd stage
bootloader.  see boot(8) and boot_console(8) for more information.


regards,

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