Subject: Re: serial console
To: Co Thai Ngo <cngo@nmsu.edu>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/21/2005 19:52:11
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:51:44AM -0700, Co Thai Ngo wrote:
> Hi,  
>     
>  I would like to install NetBSD 2.0 by using a serial console with boot-com. But I don't  
>  know if there is any way so that I could change the baud rate when booting the  
>  computer with boot-com without rebuilding the sources. I have to use the dafault baud  
>  rate 9600 while my computer can run with the baud rate 115200. Any suggestion and  
>  comment is appreciated.  

For NetBSD 2.0, you should just use the normal bootxx_ffsv1 (or equivalent
for the root filesystem type).  You can set the baudrate using the
-o speed=<baud rate> option to installboot (use -o console=com0 to select
a serial console).

	David

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