Subject: Re: [Grub][i386] Serial console?
To: Sylvain Briole <sbriole.mls@free.fr>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/24/2005 14:50:12
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:23:12AM +0000, Sylvain Briole wrote:
> AFAIK, it is not possible to say GRUB to pass any option (like Linux "console="
> parameter) directly to NetBSD kernel, to say that it musts use com0 as console.

No, AFAIK grub does not know how to pass such parameters to NetBSD.
You can, however, hardwire the device in your kernel:

options      CONSDEVNAME="\"com\"",CONADDR=0x2f8,CONSPEED=57600

Martin