Re: Preserving early console output (pre-Copyright stuff)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Allen Briggs wrote:

> Heh.  You do need a serial cable and another computer, but it's not too
> hard to set up.  You don't need to find any options in the BIOS if you
> install the right boot blocks.

Yeah, OK, I got a cable, plugged it in, run cu(1) on one end, and added 
a new entry to the /boot.cfg on the other end:

        menu=Serial/Single/Verbose/Debug:consdev com0; boot -svx

Then just boot, and things magically work!

Thanks for the clue-by-four


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